LTTE

Living to Tell the Tale

Zac O’Yeah

The LTTE’s top ranking hostage on his captivity experience and the complexities of Sri Lanka’s civil war

Dheepan: A tiger burns bright at Cannes

Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan, the story of a former Tiger’s second life in France, rendered partly in Tamil, has won the Palme d’Or at Cannes

Chennai checkmated

Padma Rao Sundarji

Now New Delhi has an unbeatable argument over Sri Lanka

A Diaspora’s Outcry

Sajeda Momin

Prabhakaran may be dead and the 26-year-long civil war in Sri Lanka over, but in the minds and hearts of Tamil expats in the UK, the battle still rages on

Reverse Swing

KA Shaji

In yet another U-turn, Jayalalithaa has warped the electoral pitch in Tamil Nadu by declaring support for the Sri Lankan Tamil dream of an independent Eelam

Memories of a Movement

Manu Joseph

A generation of middle-class boys who grew up in Madras learnt something curious from the Sri Lankan refugees: that there is such a thing called ‘a cause’

Cheers for Fears

Rahul Pandita

There are troubling signs in triumphalist Sri Lanka that the Tamil issue is not any closer to resolution

Tiger Terrain

GH Perris

Prabhakaran was terrified of peace. He lived off terror. But how did the LTTE fund its campaigns of sustained violence? This riveting account explains how