V V Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan is a novelist and journalist. Her first novel, Love Marriage, is set in Sri Lanka and some of its diaspora communities. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Washington Post, and other publications.  She teaches at the University of Minnesota.

The marriages in-between

A review of Sidharthan Maunaguru’s 'Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War'.

Jan 29, 2020

Enter the body

A short story

Oct 01, 2009

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