There was one chapter devoted to the man in my first book: Tigers of Lanka, which dealt with the origin and growth of Tamil militancy. Since its publication, friends have been pressing me to write Prabhakaran’s biography. But I was surprised by those who felt that a biography cannot be written without the explicit co-operation of the subject matter. I must underline that my knowledge of spoken and written Tamil helped me connect with those who were not comfortable with or did not know English. A Prabhakaran relative had written a long piece on the man for another Tamil journal in Chennai, but this was apparently halted after five chapters on Prabhakaran’s instructions.

Source: The Nation June 26, 2021 18:00 UTC