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Rest in power, Dr Malathi de Alwis. What a loss. Malathi's work on memory and nationalism are vital to understanding aspects of Sri Lanka as it is today.
Malathi de Alwis was relentlessly curious and engaged critically with the world around her. She was an academic, scholar and cultural anthropologist but also so much more than that. This was a beautiful tribute https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157561322521960&id=637826959
Munira Mutaher
Munira Mutaher
She wrote and published on so many interlinked themes in Sri Lanka — motherhood, gender, memory, nationalism, violence. Some of you may have caught her memory walks in Colombo which explored histories of struggle and protest, mourning and violence embedded in Colombo's landscape
A 2019 publication 'Archive of Memory' (co-curated w/ Hasini Haputhanthri) explored Sri Lanka's post-independence history through personal narratives + objects, a reminder to go beyond mainstream histories & think about our relationship to ordinary things https://www.google.com/amp/s/smritidaniel.com/2020/02/23/hasini-malathi-and-sharni-70-years-of-sri-lankan-independence/amp/
We reconnected last year & she kept giving feedback on articles & the newsletters, prompting me to think in new ways. Years ago, she showed me extraordinary kindness during my first paper presentation. You don't forget these things easily. We have lost a formidable voice today 
