Muttiah Muralitharan is not new to controversies. “Malayaha” means hill country and these Tamils live and work in the tea plantations of Sri Lanka’s breathtakingly beautiful highlands. When Sri Lanka got Independence from the United Kingdom in 1948, these Indian Tamils became stateless as the Independent Ceylon refused to give them citizenship. Indian Tamils Leaders like Saumiyamurthy Thondaman, who made …