While many people—let alone athletes—at the age of 66 have long hung up their boots, settling into retirement and relying on medications to ease joint pain, Northern Province’s sporting stalwart Shan Thayalan is rewriting the rules of aging.
Jaffna Monitor
Jaffna Monitor speaks to Nadia Kandrusevich-children’s book publisher and co-recipient of the 2024 IPA Prix Voltaire-about censorship, courage, and why quiet storytelling can be the loudest form of resistance. The IPA Prix Voltaire honours publishers who have faced pressure, threats, and harassment in the pursuit of free expression. When you learned you had been named a co-recipient, what was your immediate reaction? What does this recognition mean to you personally-and to the wider community
Jaffna Monitor
A Suitcase and a Mission On a brisk Lillehammer evening in June 2025, Dmitri Strotsev stood under the bright lights of the World Expression Forum (WEXFO) stage, speaking in his native Belarusian. Just moments earlier, he had been handed the IPA Prix Voltaire – a prestigious international award for courage in publishing – jointly with fellow Belarusian publisher Nadia Kandrusevich. Accepting the honor, Strotsev recounted the day he fled Belarus: “In March 2022, I left for the West with one small
Jaffna Monitor