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TAMIL NATION LIBRARY: Eelam
 Pirabhakaran
Phenomenon
Sachi Sri Kantha
published by Lively Comet Imprint,
2-15-16-406 Noritake Naka, Gifu City 502-0932, Japan - ISBN
Number 1-57087-671-1; Library of Congress Control Number
2004115838 - Limited First Edition, First Published 2005.
641 pages
Contact details for
obtaining the book are
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In USA: WTCC,
170-10 Cedarcroft Road, Suite 1L, Jamaica, New York 11432
[tel: 718-657-9463] [fax: 718-523-7399]; In UK: Gopi
[tel: +44 78 1011 6032],
Mahen [tel: 0208 530 3761];
In Australia: Param [tel: 03 9802 2089 or 0408 360
865] and Kumar [tel: 02
8868 4727 or 0413 006 295]
From the Author, 26 November 2005 -
A Book to Honor Pirabhakaran
I have the pleasure in announcing to readers that my
Pirabhakaran Phenomenon series [which had appeared in
the electronic medium, from 2001 and 2003] has been edited,
updated and compiled into a book with physical dimensions.[note
by
tamilnation.org:
together with additional chapters] From November
26th, it is being offered as an educational resource for the
researchers, diplomats, journalists, students and interested
well wishers of Eelam Tamils.�A writer�s greatest
pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not
know they knew�, wrote one of my favorite humorists, Andy
Rooney, an American icon. In this book, I have tried my best
to follow this dictum of Rooney. What I have written about
Pirabhakaran is �known� to all Eelam Tamils. But, as
Andy Rooney noted, I have tried to shed light on
Pirabhakaran�s character and skills which have escaped the
glance of many pundits.
Think for a while about the gigantic task Pirabhakaran
had performed since 1975. All of us have chased our rainbows
to succeed in whatever ventures we planted our feet.
Pirabhakaran chased his own rainbow, which for other
literate Tamils would have been a crazy dream. Among the
over 60 million Tamils living in the world now, who else can
claim that �I raised a successful Tamil army, which had
given jitters to Indian and Sri Lankan ruling elites� since
1983. And this claim would not be an empty boast for
Pirabhakaran. One can also add that, Pirabhakaran�s army
also had given �jobs� directly and indirectly to hundreds of
thousands Sinhalese, arms dealers, academics, journalists
and diplomats.
Thousands of Tamils have spent their lives raising
capital. Hundreds of Tamils have spent their lives raising
political parties. Only Pirabhakaran had spent his past 30
years raising a successful army. This stupendous feat
deserved admiration. Being a human, Pirabhakaran has his
faults. As a Tamilian, I will not deny it. But I wanted to
celebrate Pirabhakaran�s great achievement, which have not
been matched by any other Tamilian for the past few
centuries. Considering the demands in perseverence,
intelligence and discipline, raising a successful army is
far difficult than winning a Nobel Prize in science. There
are hundreds of Nobelists in science, but none of them had
raised a succcessful army, though quite a number have
contributed handsomely and indirectly to proliferation of
all sorts of war weapons.
Though the book is entitled as �Pirabhakaran Phenomenon�,
what I have attempted was also a recent history of Eelam
Tamils since 1975. To achieve my aim, I had spent countless
hours reading, analyzing, collating and thinking on how to
present the facts and analyses to complete this work. Ah! �
Thinking about writing; I love it. But I struggle hard.
Hemingway (another American icon, who practised writing
with distinction) had anticipated my struggle, even when I
was a toddler. In a message delivered on December 10, 1954
[when Pirabhakaran was hardly a two weeks old baby in Eelam]
to those who have gathered to honor him in Stockholm at the
Nobel awards ceremony, Hemingway had written:
"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
Organizations for writers palliate the writer�s
loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He
grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and
often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone
and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity,
or the lack of it, each day.
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning
where he tries again for something that is beyond
attainment. He should always try for something that has
never been done or that others have tried and failed.
Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed�.�
In this Pirabhakaran Phenomenon book, I have tried to
present Pirabhakaran and the Eelam Tamil history of past 30
years, as none has bothered to attempt. Now it has been
printed, in 53 chapters and 660 pages. Why I have labored
with this contribution for four years? Because I subscribe
to the dictum,
�Veritas quae minime defensatur opprimitur; et qui
non improbat, approbat�
[Truth which is not sufficiently defended is
overpowered; and he who does not disapprove, approves.].
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About
the Author - Sachi Sri
Kantha (b. 1953), a Point Pedro native from Sri Lanka,
is a Visiting Professor in behavioral development at the
Center for Human Evolution Modeling Research, Kyoto
University-Primate Research Institute, Inuyama City, Japan.
An interdisciplinary biologist, with over 100 research
publications in 40 biomedical journals, he also has
contributed essays, letters and book reviews to Sutantiran,
Sudar. Tamil Times, Tamil Nation, Lanka Guardian, Asiaweek,
Far Eastern Economic Review, Japan Times, Mainichi Daily
News, Daily Yomiuri, Asahi Evening News and South since
1974. His previously published academic books include,
Thamil Isai Theepam (1977), Prostitutes in Medical
Literature-An Annotated Bibliography (1991) and An Einstein
Dictionary (1996). Sri Kantha is currently engaged in
research on the behavior of New World primates.