Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath

Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath

In the 1940s, a family builds a home. Its bookshelves contain “the Ramayana alongside Agatha Christie”. The family, playwright S. Shakthidharan’s great-grandparents, are  farmers from Jaffna, descendants of people who have lived for centuries at the northern tip of Sri Lanka, just above the Sinhalese majority.