Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran Elhum Shakerifar communicating the ache of the

communicating the ache of the here and now

its complexity

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Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran Elhum Shakerifar communicating the ache of thePublished 24th April 2025. These poems emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 2017, Vidyan Ravinthiran travelled to the north of Sri Lanka where his parents grew up it finally felt safe visiting war torn Tamil areas overwritten by a tourist focus on the sun spoiled