Sri Lanka, Aug. 30 -- It's the end of history for Tamil politics, they say - or the Tamil politics as we knew existed. Mapping out the details may be the role of the subject experts who know their ITAK from their TNA to a fault. I take a bow to DBS. Jeyaraj, Kumar David and others on that score.

But, does the August 2020 election signify the fact, as regards the Tamil political cohort that the more you try to control something, the more it controls you?

Tamil politicians had a streak of the control-freakishness in them no doubt. It may have been the legacy of the extent of control the late LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran exercised over the Tamil people of the Northern and Eastern provinces.

The control by civilian politicians that f...