A work of reportage and testimony in Sinhala, written by the senior journalist Suranga Senanayeke. It tells a true story drawn from a troubled period in Sri Lanka's recent past, centred on one of the most contested public incidents of that time: the accusations made against Dr Shafi, a Muslim doctor.
The account is given through the eldest of his daughters. Her recollections carry the difficulties the family lived through and the mental distress that followed, set down as the memories of a child caught in a case that unfolded in public. Senanayeke presents it not simply as a memoir but as what a false allegation does to the children of a household, and what social judgement and politics driven by hostility leave behind once the headlines have moved on.
The book is written entirely in Sinhala, and the reader will need Sinhala to follow it. It is published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co., a long-established Sri Lankan house.
It will interest readers who follow Sri Lankan current affairs and the communal tensions of the period, those who read first-person accounts of families affected by public accusation, and anyone building a Sinhala-language collection of contemporary non-fiction and journalism.
- Author: Suranga Senanayeke
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552132865
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