Why another book on the Sri Lanka crisis? Primarily for two reasons: First is that the crisis has depended on the subject,and requires an urgent review of the genesis of the crisis shorn of all the mythology and propaganda; second, time is now at hand for Indian intervention for which there is widespread support from Sri Lankan civil society. So as not to repeat the errors of implementation of intervention committed in the past (1987-89), it is now essential to formulate an explicit policy framework for India's intervention. This book is about the genesis of the crisis, and proposes a clear cut alternative policy framework for Indian intervention in the Sri Lanka crisis.