MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed last November by a Sri Lankan-Canadian father for orders to produce his minor daughter and son who are with his estranged wife in India and hand over their custody to him. The father, based in Lanka, cited an October 2017 order of the high court there restraining her travel to India with the children and an August 2018 order of a Sri Lankan court which had granted him physical custody of both children and divorce, on grounds of desertion.
Three days after the interim stay in 2017, the Indian mother claiming to be unaware of it had travelled to India with the children. They have since been residing in Thane.
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When we see ourselves misrepresented on the page, it just feels like the writer has taken their pen and shoved it into our eyes, said Bala, who won awards acclaimfor her 2018 debut novel The Boat People. We can t pretend that we live in some rarefied bubble as writers where we are separate from the world.
From using sexual violence against women as a plot point in a male hero s arc, to killing off an Indigenous character for dramatic tension, Bala said storytelling tropes often serve as a mirror of the systemic indifference toward the suffering of marginalized groups.
But as society reckons with these injustices, the St. John s, N.L.-based novelist said a long-simmering conversation among authors about how to responsibly write about identities other than their own, whether that be a character of a different race, gender, sexuality, ability or class.
‘Funny Boy’ Filmmaker Deepa Mehta Wants You to Smell Sri Lanka IndieWire 1/1/2021
From her groundbreaking Elements Trilogy to “Funny Boy,” her gorgeous new queer coming-of-age tale currently streaming on Netflix, Deepa Mehta makes films to delight all of the senses. For her immersive adaptation of Sri Lankan-Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai’s beloved novel “Funny Boy,” Mehta kept one particular sense in mind: “I want people to smell ‘Funny Boy.’ You should smell it, smell the palm trees, you can smell the water.”
Raised in New Delhi and living in Toronto since 1973, the lauded Indo-Canadian filmmaker’s body of work spans globally in location and subject matter. Mehta is best known for her Elements Trilogy (the origin of that name are a mystery to her), which includes the controversial lesbian romance “Fire” (1996), the Partition era family drama “Earth” (1999), and the Oscar-nominated “Water” (2005). India submitted the film for the 2007 fore
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