Country Tamil women workers in Sri Lanka since 2008. She
holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University.
She is the author of Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work
in Postwar Sri Lanka (University of Washington Press, 2019)
and has published in Anthropological Quarterly, Dialectical
Anthropology, Himal Southasian, and SAMAJ: South Asian
Multidisciplinary Journal.
Letchumanan Kamaleswary has a Bachelor’s degree in
Sociology from the University of Peradeniya and is currently
following a Master’s degree in Development Studies at the
University of Colombo. She was selected for the United Nations
OHCHR fellowship Programme on Minorities in 2015. She is
currently working as a Senior Programme Officer at the Centre for
Equality and Justice (CEJ), Colombo.
Ponniah Logeswary is the Chief Programme Coordinator of
Human Development Organization, Kandy. She holds a Diploma
in Human Rights and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science.
She was a steering committee member in Asia Rural Women’s
Coalition and Women’s Political Academy. She has been doing
studies on Plantation and minority women in Sri Lanka.
Periyasamy Muthulingam is Executive Director of the Institute
of Social Development and founder of the Tea Plantation Workers’
Museum and Archive. He has written over five hundred articles on
the Hill Country Tamil Community and a book on the Dravidian
movement of Sri Lanka.
Buddhima Padmasiri is a Lecturer in the Department of Social
Studies at the Open University of Sri Lanka and an Attorney-Atx