Madri KalugalaStepping Outside the Story: Practicing Detachment and Objective Witnessing in Writing Non-Fiction*This is the unedited version of a blog post which I wrote for Write Beyond Borders (WBB), a transnational writing development project run…Feb 17Feb 17
Madri KalugalaSunflowers, Trauma and Obsession.November the 4th. It’s been two months almost since I last wrote here, and many months since I first meant to have the yellow book in my…Nov 5, 2023Nov 5, 2023
Madri KalugalaThe Writing Process: Depression and InspirationI would not wish this on anyone.Sep 7, 2023Sep 7, 2023
Madri KalugalaPrisoners of the MindTranslated transcript of the video ‘මනසේ සිරකරුවෝ ’ : 08 August 2023.Aug 17, 2023Aug 17, 2023
Madri KalugalaThe Unsayable: What is it, and how do we try to ‘say’ it? — Language and Trauma- “Trauma attacks, and sometimes kills, language… Trauma as a mode of being violently halts the flow of time, fractures the self, and…Aug 11, 2023Aug 11, 2023
Madri KalugalaWarring Lusts: Eros and Thanatos in Lakdas Wikkramasinha’s Erotic(?) Poetry“…any woman I lust for, as I lust for death.”Aug 4, 2023Aug 4, 2023
Madri KalugalaPreserving LW: A thought project in the makingThe thing about great poetry is that it sustains a life, an afterlife, of its own. As does any great text or work of literature; as…Mar 1, 2023Mar 1, 2023
Madri KalugalaThe Last OutsiderHaving lived on this earth now for thirty odd years in the human measurement of time, perhaps it is time to configure a manifesto for why…Feb 27, 2023Feb 27, 2023
Madri KalugalaConstructing Our ‘Selves’: How Did We All Agree Who We Are? — Part II usually stay away from society and its constructs and imaginings (a detrimental habit, I’ve been told- as one is supposed to constantly…Jan 28, 2023Jan 28, 2023