Here I post my recent interview with the Asian Review Magazine Writing and reading possess the power of healing. When writing comes out of a healer? It can be both for self-healing and healing others. The Asian Review presents today a medical doctor who embarked on a writing journey for both self-healing and healing others. Dr. Bodhini Samarathunga is a Sri Lankan writer who works across several genres. She writes in both Sinhala and English, and has been translated into third languages. She is currently based in Sweden. “Writers are not born or made; they erupt accidentally like volcanos.” How did your writing life begin? I was drawn to books from a young age and have been eager to write since school. During my medical student years, I started expressing my creativity through poems and short stories in web forums and personal blogs with the encouragement and guidance received from friends. The curiosity ignited by reading evolved into a fiery passion to create my own tales....
Stories from "the other end" — Living among them, working in the heart of the north where people struggled to heal and hoped to survive – This is my story.