Identity/ Being an outsider
The 30 year old civil war has done many terrible things in Sri Lanka to people from all the corners of the island. Many losses, loss of loved ones, loss of motherland, etc.... Being a child to a parents who displaced to the hill country from north due to the civil war, I didn't suffer the hardships of the war. First of all, to people who don't know much about Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, mainly two Tamil dialects are spoken, one being the Sri Lankan Tamil spoken by Tamils from North and East and the other is the Indian Tamil spoken by Hill country Tamils. The two dialects are so different, the way you pronounce one word would distinguish you. To the story of me again, so I grew up under the parenting of Sri Lankan Tamil dialect, but in the society I learned the Indian Tamil dialect. So I began to speak a little bit of that and this, mixture of both dialects. But at times I felt like an outcast, a boy speaking a mixed Tamil in a society where they speak the Indian Tamil dialect.