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Madri Kalugala

The Sadness of Places

Again, I wake with that familiar ache.

Apr 11

The Sadness of Places

Apr 11

Madri Kalugala

Stepping 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 17

Stepping Outside the Story: Practicing Detachment and Objective Witnessing in Writing Non-Fiction

Feb 17

Madri Kalugala

Sunflowers, 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, 2023

Sunflowers, Trauma and Obsession.

Nov 5, 2023

Madri Kalugala

The Writing Process: Depression and Inspiration

I would not wish this on anyone.

Sep 7, 2023

The Writing Process: Depression and Inspiration

Sep 7, 2023

Madri Kalugala

Prisoners of the Mind

Translated transcript of the video ‘මනසේ සිරකරුවෝ ’ : 08 August 2023.

Aug 17, 2023

Prisoners of the Mind

Aug 17, 2023

Madri Kalugala

The 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, 2023

The Unsayable: What is it, and how do we try to ‘say’ it? — Language and Trauma

Aug 11, 2023

Madri Kalugala

Warring Lusts: Eros and Thanatos in Lakdas Wikkramasinha’s Erotic(?) Poetry

“…any woman I lust for, as I lust for death.”

Aug 4, 2023

Warring Lusts: Eros and Thanatos in Lakdas Wikkramasinha’s Erotic(?) Poetry

Aug 4, 2023

Madri Kalugala

Preserving LW: A thought project in the making

The 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, 2023

Preserving LW: A thought project in the making

Mar 1, 2023

Madri Kalugala

The Last Outsider

Having 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, 2023

The Last Outsider

Feb 27, 2023

Madri Kalugala

Constructing Our ‘Selves’: How Did We All Agree Who We Are? — Part I

I 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, 2023

Constructing Our ‘Selves’: How Did We All Agree Who We Are? — Part I

Jan 28, 2023

Madri Kalugala

Madri Kalugala

Avant-garde existentialist. Trying to traverse this ocean of thought and understand⁠⁠ — why we exist;⁠ and why that matters. Sometimes, they call me a writer..

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