M.R. Narayan Swamy

By M.R. Narayan Swamy Every night before sleeping, he devoured pages from the Bhagavad Gita authored by Swami Chinmayananda. It was the last thing Ketheshwaran Loganathan read before he was shot dead by a Tamil Tiger on the morning of August 12, 2006. August 2026 would mark the 20th anniversary of one of the most despicable killings during Sri Lanka’s long-drawn war. I have met Kethesh, as he was widely known, many times – in Colombo, Chennai, and New Delhi. Most of our meetings took place wh

By M.R. Narayan Swamy It really beats me how some Sri Lankan Tamil politicians continue to cling to a dead past even as they try to reinvent themselves in a world without the Tamil Tigers. It would have made sense if a team of Tamil leaders who called on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay confined themselves to the problems faced by Tamil fishermen in Sri Lanka and the Tamil refugees living in India. But old habits die hard. The delegation, led by Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, also pressed t

By M.R. Narayan Swamy “Are you still angry with me?” This was Anton Balasingham’s poser to Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran as the two men spoke over the telephone in an attempt to make up after some two years of frosty ties. The conversation took place months before the fourth and final Eelam War broke out in August 2006, which militarily destroyed the once awesome Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and decimated its leadership. Addressing the LTTE founder-leader as Veera Maar