![]() ![]() ![]() As they matured, there was a connection between Shiva and Yasodhara but the ethnic difference caused a division between them. The Tamil family that lived above Visaka when she was younger also had a child the same age, Shiva, and all three children grew up as best friends. Yasodhara was their first child and soon after they had Lanka. It was an arranged marriage that united them but they found a happy life together. Both Visaka and Nishan could feel the beginning of the war with the conflicts between the Sinhala and the Tamil population. Her father died when she was a teenager and to make money, her mother rented out the top of their house to a Tamil family. Visaka grew up in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka with a rich father and a big family. His sister, Mala, was born darker skinned and she was treated as a disgrace to her family. Nishan had a very strict mother who always pushed him to study harder to become an engineer and a father who was a fisherman and taught him everything about the sea. Her mother, Visaka, and her father, Nishan, grew up on the island before the civil war broke out. ![]() ![]() Yasodhara tells the story of her Sinhala family from the time her parents were born to when she is an adult. It spans the entire civil war and showcases both the best and the worst of the island Sri Lanka. Island of a Thousand Mirrors tells the story of two families. ![]()
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