This is a brutally frank post-mortem of the nihilist politics that led to the bloody and brutal end of the LTTE’s founder, Velupillai Prabhakaran, in May 2009. For too long, the miseries of Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority have been blamed on the Sinhalese, successive governments in Colombo, the Indian State, even the international community, and sections of Tamils within the island nation. This book, based on extensive research and interviews, clears away many cobwebs of a troubled history. It concludes that while the reluctance of the Sri Lankan State to come to terms with Tamil political aspirations played its part, at Prabhakaran’s door lies much of the blame for dragging the Tamil community through three decades of a horrific war for the pipedream that was Eelam. M.R. Narayan Swamy is the author of the best selling "Prabhakaran" and "Tigers of Lanka"