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The child you threatened once, the young shoot you stepped on, the Tamil you teased, is standing with a gun in front of you'. This short diary was recovered from Malaravan's kit after he was killed in action in 1992, when barely twenty. In it, he recounts his unit's journey to Maankulam, the island's granary, to fight a critical battle where they routed the Lankan military. The LTTE's planning and tactics, the fervour and camaraderie of the young Tigers and the actual combat are minutely chronicled. As a foil to the violence, Malaravan brings out the beauty of the Tamil forest and countryside and the humanity and support of the common people for them, despite their suffering under army rule.

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Malaravan, born in April 1972 near Jaffna, was the youngest of his four siblings. He joined the Tamil Eelam movement in 1990. N. Malathy is a member of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora who has lived in New Zealand for four decades. She is a computer scientist who has engaged with and written extensively on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin India (1 May 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143417363
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143417361
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 49.9 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.02 x 19.79 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
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Shine Sathianesan

Heart Touching one

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 23 May 2022

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It clearly gives insights on the freedom struggle lead by the tigers and thoughts of a warrior who wish to see a better tomorrow for his people.

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Amaruvi Devanathan

A sacrifice that went down the drain

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 23 December 2015

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Malaravan, aged 22, died in 1992. Nothing significant except that he was an LTTE guerrilla and this book is his diary as a fighter for 2 years.

We get to see the mind of a guerrilla from close quarters. Malaravan in Tamil stands for the one who resembles a flower. Strange as it might sound, the boy is indeed like a flower-gentle, caring, humane and on the look out for motherly love and affection while on the move, fighting.

Malaravan records his daily activities that lead up to the capture of Maankulam, a scenic town, from the Sri Lankan forces. The trials of a fighter, the daily gore that he has to face, the silly caste differences that he sees in his people’s attitude, the preparations for an attack, the loss of fellow fighters and how he felt about them et al are recorded in minute detail.

Malaravan, as we see, is a keen observer of nature. He also records the environment that he is in, the different birds and animals that he sees, the different kinds of trees and plants, the enemy fighters and their weapons, the helicopter fights and similar such details.

We also come to know that he is the son of a doctor, has doctor siblings, was doing great in school and still chose to fight and make the supreme sacrifice.

We don’t get to see any regret at all in his words. We get to hear the normal conversations of people and some longing for home life. We are also treated to some humour even when he fights alongside his comrades a.k.a. Pooralis.

He ends his diary in anticipation of another war and promises to write about that, but is killed prior to the war.

What we are left with is: Did his sacrifice and those of many thousands of young men and women achieve anything at all? The answer, as it is obvious now in 2015, is a resounding ‘No’ and that casts a deep sigh of melancholy in our hearts.

So, why did Malaravan die? I don’t know the answer to this question.

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Divya RM

At the age of 18, its a Masterpiece!

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Malaravan, at the age of 18, did so much - makes me feel miniscule if I am even worth living - having lived one quarter of my life, I havent basically done anything significant. I wish I got the opportunity to read the original Tamil Version of this book. And special thanks to the translator, who has tried to keep the lingo and slang the same as Tamil, which keeps the originality going. Malathy, if not for you, we wouldnt have got an opportunity to read this! Malaravan was a real hero!

This also made me think of the other war heroes who lost their lives in the srilankan civil war! The spirit in this lad is abdominal! A must read for everybody who thinks they have achieved an epitome in their lives till date. This will make them feel that there is lots more to life!

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This book will make each of us to think from the perspective a tamil tiger. Malarvan's diary opens up the rascism and hatred shown by the srilankan government and army for decades. His fight was against the inhuman activities of the army towarda the Tamilians of Srilanka.

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subramanya rao

Simple and natural narrative

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 14 March 2015

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This book is likeable as a natural narrative of a young Tamil Tiger. It highlights the ground level situation which motivated and prompted many Tamil youth to join, what they considered to be the only option for them at that point of time. Simple next door neighbor boy narrative makes it admirable.

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Amazing book! Crisp but insightful

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 3 November 2017

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Book is very simple but vivid and one can sense the feeling of tragedy and courage endured by the author in that war

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Wonderfully written. Short and engaging

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 12 February 2018

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Wonderfully written.Short and engaging. Gave me insight of Tamil tigers and there contribution, love and sacrifice for their homeland.

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RAJAH

Superb piece of work

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on 18 May 2021

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A direct account of a Tamil Tiger's life struggles, dreams, ambitions, heart-aches, pains, sufferings, compassion for his people, witnessing torture as a child, and so on. The story is told directly from his heart. Malaravan's story opens with his journey towards the battle field, on an old tractor with several other cadres, through a dense forest during the night. The opening scene itself symbolically foretells what is going to follow. Once, I open the page, I couldn't put it down, without reaching the last word, he wrote. A wonderful piece of work.

Hendrik

Must-Have for Every Tamilan

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on 31 March 2020

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For every Tamil from Tamil Eelam a Must-have. It complements the article in the Internet. LTTE is not a Group of Terrorist. We are Freedom fighter!

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Butterfly

Wonderfully honest and evocative writing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 February 2015

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Wonderfully honest and evocative writing, full of sensual and spiritual love for humanity and nature. Finally a book that shows the Tigers for who they truly were, an extended family with the people, with feelings and desires, blemishes and all. Thank you N. Malathy for this translation, bringing it to those who can't read the original in Tamil. In this we have something true to remember them by instead of the facile misrepresentations by those who never knew them.

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Pranavan Maruthainar

Worst Translation !

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 5 June 2019

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Author attempts to word by word translate what someone said in an entirely different language that has no overlapping cultural elements to it. In doing so, the writing immediately distracts you and loses you just a couple of pages down the book. Go to udumalai.com and get the original version in Tamil and you can see it for yourself. Udumalai.com shipped the book to US and i'm pretty sure would do so to rest of the world.

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