A selection of interviews conducted across South Asia which supplement the separate categories of Partition Voices and Communist Voices.
I interviewed Appapillai Amirthalingam, the leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front, in Colombo in July 1986, at the conclusion of two weeks of talks between his party - then based in Madras - and the Sri Lankan government. The main issue was the prospect of devolving power to the Tamil-dominated north and east of the island.
Mr Amirthalingam was assassinated in Colmbo three years later by the Tamil Tigers.