• Operation Sangeetha: The Cultural Defection Pipeline — How the Music of Madras Obliterated the Tigers

    This article presents the first-person account of Kagusthan Ariaratnam, detailing my transformation from a radicalized cadre within the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to a strategic double agent serving India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Sri Lanka’s Directorate Military Intelligence (DMI). My defection was catalyzed not by military force or conventional propaganda, but…

  • The Role of Arts in Countering Violent Extremism

    The Role of Arts in Countering Violent Extremism

    This article was originally published by “NATO Association of Canada” on March 25, 2019. Reporting on the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the BBC wrote that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) sponsored by numerous global powers surrounded ISIS within a small patch of land near Syria’s border with Iraq. This…