In search of a unifying goddess
'Invoking the Goddess', an exhibition by photographer Sharni Jayawardena and anthropologist Malathi de Alwis focuses on the worship of...
Yala’s tribute to two boys who loved its wilds
Refurbished in the memory of two wildlife enthusiasts who lost their lives while holidaying at their favourite National Park in the 2004 tsunami,...
For Mala, every human story was worthy of attention
Malathi de Alwis died on January 21, aged 57. We were friends since we were both seven years old. Her death has left me bereft, as it has so many others in Sri...
A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work
The talk drew from her chapter “Trauma, Memory and Forgetting.” In Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War.
Ordinary voices made extraordinary by the times they lived in
View(s):. Archive of Memory, launched this month, is made up of voices from across seven decades of independence. In the introduction to the...
Star-studded Sinhalese Film on Silappadhikaram to Hit Screens Soon
The Ilankai Tamil Sangam and Sinhalese scholars like Dr.Malathi de Alwis have hailed the Pattini cult as a unifying factor in ethnically...
Rani’s struggle and plight of many mothers
by Anushka Kahandagamage. Unlike Manorani, mothers in both the North and South, whose children disappeared, had no means of reaching out to...
Individual stories entwined in our post independence history
Ever thought that a saree pota (fall of a saree), maalu paan (fish buns), a teacup or a grinding stone could relate to the post-independence...
A tale retold
Anthropologist Malathi de Alwis and photographer Sharni Jayawardena reinterpret Pattini-Kannaki cult through photographs.
Women’s Representation and Participation in Formal Politics
Featured image by Sri Lanka Brief Despite the drive for gender equality promoted at the Beijing UN World Conference on Women in 1995,...
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Academic and feminist activist whose research and writing addressed gender, nationalism and memory in Sri Lanka.