Elijah Hoole

Elijah Hoole works in tech. He occasionally writes on Sri Lankan politics, society, and culture in Tamil and English.

Vanni: A graphic history

A recent graphic novel highlights the human cost of Sri Lanka’s civil war.

Jun 16, 2020

Latest Articles

How Southasia and Oman intertwined

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike

A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between