I wonder why the captioned article, “When rage became terror” (Magazine, May 26, pp 6-9), did not find it relevant to make even a passing reference to the role played by majoritarian policies (in the name of democracy) followed by successive governments in Sri Lanka for decades. Wasn’t this directly the cause of Tamil dissatisfaction which severely rocked the country and in all probability created a fertile breeding ground for those macabre and destructive thoughts to enter the minds of those whose motivations and actions the article seeks to analyse? It has profound lessons for how we in India manage our society and politics.
Sushil Prasad,
Hyderabad