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Relationship of the week: Kate E Deeming, 36, and Tharan Sivapatham, 18

From school in Govan to Sri Lanka: how a student and his teacher have affected each other’s lives

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Marisa Duffy

Kate E Deeming, 36, performance artist

Tharan was one of my students when I was working for a film company about six years ago, when we ran a film project at Govan High School in Glasgow. I knew he was from Sri Lanka but didn’t know much about his story.