“The stillness of the society is terrible roar
It disturbs my peace”
:Vijayaluxmi








Vijayaluxmi is a different kind of writer and feminist activist.
She is a valiant feminist activist from the village of Naavatkudaa, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

Emergence of Vijayaluxmi as a personality is a message to the girls of the villages. She established herself as remarkable women writer and as a vibrant young activist through the medium of creative writing and feminist activism.

As a short story writer and poetess she expresses the numbed feelings of the sufferings of women very simply and sharply.

She is working at Suriya Women Development Centre, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka and Edits the Penn Magazine (Women) and Pennkal Seithi Madal (Women’s News Letter).

Vijayaluxmi developed herself as a facilitator and working with women in the villages for the empowerment of women. She has engaged herself particularly with displaced women and women affected by violence.

She writes to share the sufferings of women in order to create a better world for all. Her voice is collective and the voice of sisterhood.

Life of Vijayaluxmi is an interaction between her activism and her writings.

Her first short story collection titled “Why the sky went up?” was released in the latter part of the year 2006 and it was published by “Panikudam Publishers” a women’s collective with the collaboration of the Suriya Women Development Centre, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

S.Jeyasankar