Fathima Cader

Fathima Cader is a writer, lawyer and academic. She was born in Colombo, raised in Pottuvil, and is now based in Toronto.

S Shakthidharan’s memoir of Sri Lanka’s unfinished war and its afterlives

An Australian playwright of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage, S Shakthidharan turns one family’s story into a meditation on Sri Lanka’s war, colonialism and migration, revealing how history is lived through home

By Fathima Cader

/ 21 Jul 2026

S Shakthidharan’s memoir of Sri Lanka’s unfinished war and its afterlives