ravings of a strange woman

Currently, this blog contains my published articles. It started out as an outlet for my random writings, ramblings and ravings. Hence the name 'Ravings of a strange woman'. Blogs are like that famous first step outside one's door. No one really knows where it will all end up.

Monday, June 30, 2014

The Vanniyas of Sri Lanka Vs Vanniyas of South India

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 08 December 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli ...
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Memories of the Wanni; the Vaddas and the Vanniyas

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 24 November 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli ...

Aleas, Kuruwe Vidanes and the Vanniyalettho. The secret history of Jaffna and the Vanni

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 10 November 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli ...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Deciphering the Vanniyas; a people out of the box

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 13 October 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli ...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Into the Vanni and Jaffna of the 17th Century

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 29 September 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli ...

A historian in focus- The Dark Side of S Pathmanathan

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 08 September 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

No, you can’t have jam yet Professor Sitrampalam!

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 18 August 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli ...
Monday, June 16, 2014

What Paranavitana said to McGilvray; “Do your homework son”

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 04 August 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli ...

Dennis McGilvray In the cozy darkness of a velvet blindfold

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 21 July 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli St...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Kuragala Lessons 2 Using PR to obliterate heritage

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 02 June 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Kuragala Lessons – Fighting with honour for a stake in a layered heritage

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Published in my column in The Nation on Sunday, 26 May, 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli ...

The BBS that my mother likes

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Published in my column in The Nation on May 05, 2013 and in Colombo Telegraph on the same date. By Darshanie Ratnawalli I am the l...
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