{"id":120890,"date":"2014-03-03T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T07:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=120890"},"modified":"2014-03-08T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T07:04:57","slug":"sri-lanka-after-the-war-seeing-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-after-the-war-seeing-both-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka After The War: Seeing Both Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of their bitter war, nearly five years ago, has done little to unite Sri Lanka\u2019s divided communities. In their modest way, a photographer and an anthropologist are working together to try bridging the distance that separates the country\u2019s two largest ethnic groups\u2014by showing them how they worship the same goddess.<\/p>\n<p>The majority,\u00a0Sinhala-speaking Buddhists, call her Pattini\u00a0while the\u00a0minority Tamil Hindus name her Kannaki. For the most part, neither of the two communities knows that the other reveres her under a different name. But their beliefs are deeply syncretic, and point towards\u00a0a shared history\u00a0and traditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sharni+Jayawardena&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sharni Jayawardena<\/span><\/a>, the photographer, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Malathi+de+Alwis&amp;x=11&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Malathi de Alwis<\/span><\/a>, the anthropologist, are using this shared background in an attempt to foster reconciliation. For more than two years they traversed the country photographing the worship of the goddess; her many temples, rituals and processions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/banyan\/2014\/03\/sri-lanka-after-war\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the Economist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MDS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-120891\" alt=\"MDS\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MDS.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MDS.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MDS-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":120891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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