Sri Lanka

Senthilnathan Ratnasabapathy
Senthilnathan Ratnasabapathy is a journalist who has hundreds of articles over the past 15 years from Sri Lanka, Europe and the American continent. He settled in Colombo, the capital, in 1987 after the Indian military launched operations in the North, and managed to smuggle the first photo out of the area, which was published in Time magazine. He lost his job in early 1988 when the Tamil rebels bombed his newspaper’s head office. He then freelanced for, among others, the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency. He forayed into the war territory in the North and East and wrote a number of articles. As a Tamil, he had unique insights into the mindset of the civilians, but that landed him into trouble, as some of his interviewees were threatened. He left Sri Lanka in 1990 as a refugee and as an exile, after the Chief Correspondent for the IPS was kidnapped and murdered, and he himself felt threatened. Ratnasabapathy emigrated to Canada in 1999, where he continued to work for Asian and British media organizations. He has written two novels, both unpublished.