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Ravi Kumar (Eds), Contemporary Readings in Marxism: A Critical Introduction

of the Sinhalese community suspected him to be an LTTE sympathiser. Yet once again Boyogoda’s sagacity is at work as he refuses to take sides but rather contemplates the ethnic divide that 30 years of protracted warring has created and the suffering it has brought in its wake. A Long Watch is interesting for many reasons. While it may not be a precept of testimony writings or memoirs as cultural texts that foregrounds on expanding the cultural lacunae in Western cultural memory, it is an intrinsically personal narrative frozen in those difficult times of Sri Lanka that allows a peek into what was there before the war between the Tigers and the Sri Lankan government ravaged the country. The book also tells the changing ethos of a country—the civil war that ensued between two ethnicities, which has been eventually about asserting power. But clearly the biggest lesson that the book offers is hope. The clear vivid images of a country and its people changing captured in the memoir with a keen straightforwardness also offers an optimism wherein reconciliation is also possible if only there is a political and social will.