Sinnaththurai Jeyakumar I first met Sinnaththurai Jeyakumar in 2020 at a particularly good dinner in Jetwing Jaffna’s elegant restaurant. We had eaten well, enjoyed a bottle of wine, and were feeling good. As we thanked our waiter, he asked if we would like to meet the chef.
A moment later there he was. Smart, enthusiastic, with a bright engaging smile topped off by a chef’s hat, Sinnaththurai Jeyakumar came out from the kitchen to meet us. Jeyakumar was the chef responsible for cooking and plating our dinners. Strictly speaking Jeyakumar was the Second Commis Chef who under normal circumstances would be guided by the First Commis Chef instructed by the Chef de Partie reporting to the Sous Chef under the direction of The Chef in Jaffna following the culinary strategies of the Executive Chef in Colombo. But in 2020, after two hard knocks to the tourism industry with the 2019 Easter Bombing and the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, these chains of command had some missing links as the cash
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Based on Sri-Lankan author Shyam Selvadurai book of the same name, for which she first approached the writer 20 years back, Mehta insists that though first published in 1994, the novel is politically relevant even now.
All of us just want to be accepted: Deepa Mehta
Tue, Feb 23 2021 09:24:46 AM
By Sukant Deepak
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS): All of us are funny boys and girls, we all just want to be accepted, whether for our choices, sexuality, race or cultures. The film is finally a plea for tolerance, says Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta on her latest film Funny Boy , which centres on the coming of age of a young Tamil boy in Sri lanka who is coming to terms with his homosexuality against the backdrop of the increased tensions between Tamil and Sinhalese communities before the breakout of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Based on Sri-Lankan author Shyam Selvadurai book of the same name, for which she first approached the writer 20 years back, Mehta insists that though first published in 1994, the novel is politically relevant even now.