Chapter
1: The first teardrops
Chapter
2: Beginning of British Rule
Chapter
3: Muslim riots and communal rumblings
Chapter
4: The Ceylon National Congress and its intrigues
Chapter
5: Political polarization on communal lines
Chapter
6: Donoughmore - Tamils no more
Chapter
7: State Councils - elections and boycotts
Chapter
8: Pan Sinhalese board of ministers - A Sinhalese ploy
Chapter
9: British Concordance and concoctions
Chapter
10: Lord Soulbury and his soulless report
Chapter
11: On the threshold of freedom
Chapter 12: Tryst with independence
Chapter
13: A nightmarish British legacy
Chapter
14: Post colonial realignment of political forces
Chapter
15: Turbulence in any language
Chapter
16: ‘Honorable wounds of war’
Chapter
17: Assassination of Bandaranaike
Chapter
18: Srimavo - weeping arrogance
Chapter
19: Anguish and pain
Chapter
20: Tamil leadership lacks perspicuity
Chapter
21: A further lack of perspicuity
Chapter
22: ‘Only God Can Save the Tamils’
Chapter
23: Srimavo's constitutional promiscuity
Chapter
24: Tamil militancy - a manifestation
Chapter
25: War or peace?
Chapter
26: When conflict turns to terror
Chapter
27: Horsewhip Amirthalingham
Chapter
28: Prelude to eruption
Chapter
29: Prisoners massacred
Chapter
30: Whirlpool of violence
Chapter
31: Indira Gandhi - a casualty of terror
Chapter
32: Limbo between war and peace
Chapter
33: India shows its hand
Chapter
34: Accord and its ramifications
Chapter
35: Accord turns to discord
Chapter
36: Indians rule the roost
Chapter
37: Talking peace
Chapter
38: Badgering for Indian withdrawal
Chapter 39:
Amirthalingham eliminated
Chapter 40: Rohana Wijeweera's killing - still a mystery
Chapter 41:
Confusion as Indians withdraw
Chapter 42:
Unilateral declaration of Eelam
Chapter 43:
Aftermath of the Indian withdrawal
Chapter 44: Eelam war - again
Chapter 45: War continues with brutality
Chapter 46: Rajiv Gandhi's assassination
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Chapter
47: Questions over Gandhi's killing
Chapter
48: Gandhi's murder: Widespread fallout
Chapter
49: No confidence in the President
Chapter
50: Death of a military hero
Chapter
51: Commission fails to contact the LTTE
Chapter
52: President blamed for assassinations
Chapter
53: The Kilaly massacre
Chapter
54: More peace talks
Chapter
55: Assassination of Athulathmudali
Chapter
56: The execution of Mahattaya
Chapter
57: Kittu, the LTTE legend
Chapter
58: Premadasa indicted
Chapter
59: Queries over Premadasa's slaying
