What if Sinhalese chauvinists successfully coalesce Sinhalese obduracy against granting Tamil rights?
Then partition would be inevitable, irrespective of our personal likes and dislikes. India won’t allow it! India being against a separate Eelam is fiction. India will do what is best for India. We Tamils have antagonised India in so many ways that a separate Eelam is anathema to India. In 1990, when President Premadasa was undermining India, Rajiv Gandhi personally told me that Eelam seemed inevitable “if Premadasa goes on like this”. What is certain is that any solution not endorsed by India is not viable. As a federalist in thinking, why did you join the EPRLF and EPDP? I never was a member of the EPRLF. I simply offered them my services as a public servant. At that time I felt that the TULF had let the Tamils down. For the Indo-Lanka Accord to take off, Tamils had to contest the elections, assume office and exercise power. The TULF was too scared, and failed to provide leadership to the people at critical moments, so much so that a top Indian official described them to me as ‘inept
