This book is a latest anthology from the author that caters to the reading public in Lanka and elsewhere by collecting his essaying interventions in the public realm, usually on web, within one cover. These articles have been written between 2009 and 2012. Two long articles, however, are new products drafted in 2012. One article explores the significance of a Karaiyar caste coterie within the LTTE, while clarifying the ideological currents that inspired their opposition to the Sinhala dominated state. The other clarifies the circumstances of the Tamil people within the de facto to state of Thamil Eelam from 2002 onwards and especially within the crucible of war in “then Vanni Pocket” in 2009 and thence to the detention centres at Mnik Farm.