Shyam Tekwani
Shyam Tekwani is a faculty member at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and a former photojournalist. He has covered insurgencies, political crises, elections and civil wars across South Asia and spent years embedded with the Tamil Tigers during Sri Lanka’s civil war.
Latest from Shyam Tekwani
Sri Lanka’s Civil War and the Limits of Literature
As new mass graves are exhumed in Sri Lanka, a journalist who spent years embedded with the Tamil Tigers surveys the works dealing with the country’s civil war and asks whether, between myth and memory, fiction and nonfiction, a narrative can ever be complete.