{"id":147236,"date":"2025-01-06T18:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=147236"},"modified":"2025-01-06T18:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:40:45","slug":"recalling-karen-robertss-novel-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/recalling-karen-robertss-novel-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Recalling Karen Roberts\u2019s Novel \u201cJULY\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recalling Karen Roberts\u2019s Novel \u201cJULY\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800000;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2025\/01\/06\/recalling-karen-robertss-novel-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A GIFT of a book from Dr. Hilali Noordeen of Britain and Galle led from one event to another: the \u201canother\u201d being<strong>\u00a0the felicitation that he provided to authoress Karen Roberts in the course of the Galle Literary Festival in early 2004.<\/strong>\u00a0KAREN, alas, passed away prematurely in 2018: so this is an occasion for TPS\u00a0 to pay homage to her memory in several ways\u00a0 \u2014 one being\u00a0 \u00a0a focus on her novel<em><strong>\u00a0July<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>published in 2002. In doing so, let me stress that I recall some of the tales \u2014 that is, her \u201cevidence\u201d \u2014 she provided about her experiences in witnesssing the horrendous assaults on SL Tamils and\/or their establishments\u00a0 meted out by a variety of hands during that fateful week in late July 1983.** After leaving her work place on the first day of the attacks,\u00a0 she had to walk back from Kollupitiya to Dehwela to reach her home and she provided me with several vivid details of the scenes she witnessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2025\/01\/06\/recalling-karen-robertss-novel-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/511VADJA3wL._SY466_.jpg?w=303&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: 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