Chapter 1: The first teardrops
Chapter 2: Beginning of British rule
Chapter 3: Muslim riots and communal rumblings
Chapter 4: 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: 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
Chapter 47: Questions over Gandhi's killing
Chapter 48: Gandhi's death: Widespread fallout
Chapter 49: No confidence in the president
Chapter 50: Death of a military hero
Chapter 51: Commission fails to contact LTTE
Chapter 52: President blamed for killings
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

The end