so we are not endorsing the brutality of the ltte, but the emergence of ltte and the tamil grievancesn the 20th century, you see? so because sri lanka was governed by... ..mostly by sinhala buddhist southern leaders, so the tamil grievances and the tamil anger deserves the historical sympathy. crushing them is a different issue. i'm not about talking about that. i'm talking about the rights of the tamils and for their grievances and how we marginalised and disenfranchised them in many different ways. i have so many tamil friends and students because it is from them that i get... ..i look at the problem — it's not through the ltte i'm looking at the issue. 0k. but you paint and you draw, you also make installations and you have a particular focus on shiva, and you use these pictures as a kind of metaphor for attempts by successive governments in sri lanka to crush the uprising, as you have said. so what are you trying to depict through such works? two things. you see, my work has a very cultural specific meaning behind them. at the same time, i'm also trying to enter into a bit transce