Posted on February 6th, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala
To understand
contemporary national politics and its complex combinations and permutations it
is imperative that any student of politics must first get a firm grasp of the
two political cultures that divides the North and the South. The gap is much
wider than the Palk Straits that separates us from India, thankfully. For
instance, the Tamils have never tasted equality, dignity, liberty, justice and
peace under any of the Tamil rulers starting from the time of Sankili who went
down to Mannar and massacred 600 innocent Tamil Catholics on the eve of
Christmas 1544 to Velupillai Prabhakaran (2009) who massacred 600 Sri Lankan