Rashantha Devanesan
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Rashantha Devanesan (née Homer-Vaniasinkam) was born on the 3rd of October 1956 in Colombo, Sri Lanka and is the founder of the jewellery brand Kadambari.
Biography
The eldest of three, Rasthantha spent her early life in Colombo, studying at Holy Family Convent until the tragic loss of her mother. After spending a short period in Jaffna in the north of Sri Lanka, Rasthantha and her sister attended boarding school at Bishop Cotton Girls School in Bangalore followed by Women’s Christian College in Chennai, India, where she studied for a Bachelors degree in History.
She married Alagaratnam Devanesan in 1982 and following the race riots in Colombo in 1983, Rasthantha and her husband moved to Vellore in India where she had her first child (Ruha Devanesan) in 1983 and then her second (Arjun Devanesan) in 1986. They lived in Chennai (then called Madras) in India until moving to the village of Porsea in North Sumatra in Indonesia in 1991. In 1993 her and her family moved to Kerinci where she founded a primary school for her children and the children of other local expatriate families. This school would later go on to be Sekolah Mutiarah Harapan (founded in 2003), a non-profit, K-12 coeducational school situated within the Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) / APRIL Group compound..[1]
She moved with her children to Singapore in 1995 where she then completed a Masters degree in Education through the University of Sheffield (administrated by the British Council in Singapore) and taught History at the San Yu Adventist Secondary school for a number of years. She and her husband were resident in Singapore for almost thirty years and eventually took on Singapore Citizenship. They have since retired back to Colombo where they currently reside.
In 2008, Rashantha moved to Brazil with her husband and while there started to make beaded jewellery using locally sourced semi-precious gemstones. This soon escalated into an ardent passion and she began incorporating antique silver elements into her pieces[1].
Kadambari
She founded the jewellery brand Kadambari in 2010, focused on reworking antique silver jewellery from Central Asia, the middle East, North Africa, South and South East Asia. Profits from her sales have always gone to charities that she has supported over the years including Deaf and Blind Aid Sri Lanka, the Sunera Foundation, I-India and Protsahan. She has exhibited and sold her work internationally, including the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and Sri Lanka[2].
For someone interested in history, material culture or the movement of objects between societies, the trade-bead work is particularly compelling: a necklace becomes a way of exploring migration, exchange, craftsmanship and the history of maritime commerce[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "ARTRA Magazine: Traditions, Treasures & Trinkets". ARTRA. 2020-10-14. Retrieved 2026-10-14. Cite error: Invalid parameter "details" in
<ref>tag. The supported parameters are: dir, follow, group, name. - ↑ "Official Website: Kadambari Jewels". Kadambari Jewels. Retrieved 2026-10-14.
- ↑ Corbett, Sarah (2020-09-14). "Ethnic Jewels Magazine: Kadambari Jewels". Retrieved 2026-10-14.
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