“I am home wherever I live’ Indran Amirthanayagam talks to Yomal Senerath-Yapa about how politics and poetry are intertwined in his life View(s): View(s):I meet Indran Amirthanayagam in a café thick with espresso and the Monday morning din of people mingling business with pleasure. The poet in young Indran was cajoled out in Hawaii which evoked memories of Ceylon – the palms, the fruits, the sea. Apart from English, Indran writes poetry in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. “I am at home wherever I live, and I make it home by learning the language and writing in that language.” When he keeps away from one language for some time he feels lost and unhappy. Every week, Indran writes a Spanish poem for the newspaper El Acento, and a French poem for the Haitian newspaper Haiti en Marche.

Source: Sunday Times February 14, 2026 19:50 UTC