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Top 15 V.V. Ganeshananthan Quotes (2026 Update)

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “You can’t just stay in the house studying. You have to see the world yourself – don’t let others tell you what it looks like.”

1. “You can’t just stay in the house studying. You have to see the world yourself – don’t let others tell you what it looks like.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “Many people have died there: some killed by the Sri Lankan Army and the state, some by the Indian Peace Keeping Force, and some by the Tamil separatists, whom you know as the terrorists. Many people, of course, have also lived.”

2. “Many people have died there: some killed by the Sri Lankan Army and the state, some by the Indian Peace Keeping Force, and some by the Tamil separatists, whom you know as the terrorists. Many people, of course, have also lived.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “Imagine the places you grew up, the places you studied, places that belonged to your people, burned. But I should stop pretending that I know you. Perhaps you do not have to imagine. Perhaps your library, too, went up in smoke.”

3. “Imagine the places you grew up, the places you studied, places that belonged to your people, burned. But I should stop pretending that I know you. Perhaps you do not have to imagine. Perhaps your library, too, went up in smoke.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “But it’s easy for someone to look at what is happening and say that in the same situation, they wouldn’t do the same thing. Who knows what they would do in such a situation?”

4. “But it’s easy for someone to look at what is happening and say that in the same situation, they wouldn’t do the same thing. Who knows what they would do in such a situation?”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “Don’t ever say that again,” she said. “That you’d rather die. I had five children, and only two of you are with me, and God knows where your father is, so when I tell you to do it, Sashikala, you had better get in.”

5. “Don’t ever say that again,” she said. “That you’d rather die. I had five children, and only two of you are with me, and God knows where your father is, so when I tell you to do it, Sashikala, you had better get in.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “We were not from the same place or the same community, but she understood me so well that with her, I had neither to explain nor conceal myself.”

6. “We were not from the same place or the same community, but she understood me so well that with her, I had neither to explain nor conceal myself.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “A working-class girl who narrowly escaped assault filed a complaint,” Anjali wrote. “For her bravery and honesty, much of Jaffna thanked her with rumour.”

7. “A working-class girl who narrowly escaped assault filed a complaint,” Anjali wrote. “For her bravery and honesty, much of Jaffna thanked her with rumour.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “The British are known for their tea, but honestly, it was awful. Strange, considering they get the export quality. Do sit down.”

8. “The British are known for their tea, but honestly, it was awful. Strange, considering they get the export quality. Do sit down.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “Turn a dead boy into a militant and his death is excusable, you see. Every Tamil boy born in the year I was born was acceptable collateral damage.”

9. “Turn a dead boy into a militant and his death is excusable, you see. Every Tamil boy born in the year I was born was acceptable collateral damage.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “But then the lights winked out across the peninsula, as boy after boy I had known and loved was extinguished or gone.”

10. “But then the lights winked out across the peninsula, as boy after boy I had known and loved was extinguished or gone.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “You must understand: There is no single day on which a war begins. The conflict will collect around you gradually, the way carrion birds assemble around the vulnerable, until there are so many predators that the object of their hunger is not even visible. You will not even be able to see yourself in the gathering crowd of those who would kill you.”

11. “You must understand: There is no single day on which a war begins. The conflict will collect around you gradually, the way carrion birds assemble around the vulnerable, until there are so many predators that the object of their hunger is not even visible. You will not even be able to see yourself in the gathering crowd of those who would kill you.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “Evil is not limited by what you personally can imagine.”

12. “Evil is not limited by what you personally can imagine.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “So we were not friends at first, although he had already been more intimate with me than any other boy I had known.”

13. “So we were not friends at first, although he had already been more intimate with me than any other boy I had known.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “I want you to understand: it does not matter if you cannot imagine the future. Still, relentless, it comes.”

14. “I want you to understand: it does not matter if you cannot imagine the future. Still, relentless, it comes.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “But we could no longer bear the discrimination of a government dominated by the majority Sinhalese, the Tamil politicians declared: no more second-class status for our language, double standards and quotas for Tamil students, government-run Sinhala colonization schemes in traditionally Tamil areas, no more government-fomented anti-Tamil violence. The 1958 riots had taken place ten.”

15. “But we could no longer bear the discrimination of a government dominated by the majority Sinhalese, the Tamil politicians declared: no more second-class status for our language, double standards and quotas for Tamil students, government-run Sinhala colonization schemes in traditionally Tamil areas, no more government-fomented anti-Tamil violence. The 1958 riots had taken place ten.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan Quote: “I go only to return,” I said because Tamil has no words for last goodbyes.”

16. “I go only to return,” I said because Tamil has no words for last goodbyes.”

— V.V. Ganeshananthan

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