My earliest short films, “Kerosene” (2011) and “Paper” (2011) are screening at the beautiful Jaipur Centre for Art as part of its curated summer film programme, Artists’ Cinema | Artist’s Cinema.

The films explore the ingenuity and resilience of Tamil communities under embargo during the civil war in the 1990s — when the state cut off food, fuel, medicine, and even newsprint from reaching the north and east of Sri Lanka.