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
The Sacred Convictions That Preserve the Profane Red Lines of Partition
On the 79th anniversary of Partition, a veteran journalist argues that the tragedy is not just that India and Pakistan’s borders were drawn badly, but that they were defended well.
The Afterlife of War’s Images
A veteran war correspondent reflects on the afterlife of photographs — and how they become fodder for conferences and fellowships while their subjects recede into oblivion.
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.