Rohini Mohan (Author of The Seasons of Trouble)

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Rohini Mohan is an Indian journalist who writes on politics, environment and human rights in South Asia.

鈥婭n the last 10 years, she has reported for Al Jazeera, Tehelka magazine, The Caravan magazine, The New York Times, The Hindu, Outlook Traveller, and news channel CNN-IBN. She has lived in New Delhi, Chennai and New York, and is now based in Bangalore, India.

Rohini has a Masters in political journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York. She speaks four South Asian languages: Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada.

Her first book is THE SEASONS OF TROUBLE, a nonfiction account of three people caught up in the aftermath of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.

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	The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War 4.40 avg rating — 818 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Do It Yourself during Chennai floods

Chennai, the unique, wonderous city that introduced me to journalism, freedom and politics, has been flooded for weeks. It has had the highest rainfall in a 100 years, perhaps a sign of climate change, but the chaos is purely due to short-sighted urban development. The airport over a river bank, entire residential colonies over lakes, an IT hub over marshlands. But this stock-taking and

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The Fire Next Time

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“Someone must have talked plenty, because on an afternoon in June 2008, Sarvannantha Pereira was detained by men who didn't say who whey were. They would call it an arrest. It felt more like an abduction.”
― Rohini Mohan, The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War

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“Even in the worst of times, the Tamils had not expected the Sri Lankan army to shell the sick and dying.”
― Rohini Mohan, The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War

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“The girls were screaming in Tamil, except for one, who was repeating the word "epa" like a loud and shrill chant. That was not how the Sinhala word was usually used, but it was an expression Mugil had ofen heard Sinhalese policeman and the army lob at civilians. Epa! when they didn't want you to sell apples by the road in Jaffna. Epa! when you tried to drive on at the checkpoint at Vavuniya. Epa! Don't! The girl's voice seemed to ring through all of Kilinochchi.”
― Rohini Mohan, The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War

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