Shankari Chandran

Sep 24, 2024 | greenleft.org.au | Shankari Chandran

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens By Shankari ChandranUltimo Press, 2022, $25Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens reflects contemporary Australia, with its migrant community, its sexism, its racism, its rotten Labor Party politics, White Australian stupidity, sadness, tragedy, but also solidarity, compassion and humanity. Shankari Chandran writes with a delicate touch that only an author with a migrant background could achieve — able to see our warts and all.

Dec 13, 2023 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Shankari Chandran

Mastering the Sri Lankan Tamil kissWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. As large families disperse, funerals become an important reminder of tradition. By Shankari ChandranDecember 14, 2023, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Fourteen months after the last family funeral, I am at another one. Our elders are getting older.

Dec 13, 2023 | smh.com.au | Shankari Chandran

Save Fourteen months after the last family funeral, I am at another one. Our elders are getting older. I am sitting next to an uncle, and he is clearly asleep: his body hunched and his head sinking deeper into his chest. I'm worried he's going to topple into the aisle of the chapel. I remind myself this is a Sri Lankan Tamil funeral, so there is almost certainly an orthopaedic surgeon or a geriatrician in the congregation. Pre-emptively, I squeeze his shoulders and he startles awake.

Aug 13, 2023 | readings.com.au | Shankari Chandran

• The Voice to Parliament Handbook by Thomas Mayor & Kerry O'Brien • Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi & Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.) • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin • Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason - On Recognition and Renewal by Megan Davis • The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams • Your Name is not Anxious by Stephanie Dowrick • I'd Rather Not by Robert Skinner • The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant Our bestseller again this month was The Voice...

Jul 26, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Michael Williams |Shankari Chandran |Kate McClymont

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens is the book Shankari Chandran always wanted to write. Read TranscriptChai Time at Cinnamon Gardens is the book Shankari Chandran always wanted to write. After being rejected by publishers, Shankari decided to write for herself and finally tackle the subject she'd been avoiding: Race in Australia. In doing so, she has won the Miles Franklin award and changed the trajectory of her writing career.