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Author: Shamini Sriskandarajah

Shamini Sriskandarajah is a therapist, bereavement counsellor, florist, writer, and editor. She writes poetry and fiction about the intricacies of loss, friendship, and family. Shamini also writes non-fiction about floristry and gardening, culture and society, and mental health and inequality. Follow Shamini on Twitter via @FlowersShamini

An interview with Gemma Seltzer:’The messiness of friendship is what I like exploring’

23rd November 202115th August 2022  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Shamini Sriskandarajah talks to author Gemma Seltzer about her new short story collection Ways of Living and its themes of female friendship, religion, and the city.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: female friendships, flâneuses, Gemma seltzer, Influx Press, Interview, Judaism, London, Short Stories, Ways of Living, workshops, Write and Shine

Ways of Living by Gemma Seltzer: powerful and deeply human

28th July 202128th July 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Shamini Sriskandarajah reviews this debut collection of London-based short stories, full of vivid, colourful characters and with a joyfully feminist streak.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Gemma seltzer, Influx Press, London, Short Stories, Ways of Living

In Memory of Memory: the fragmented story of a family’s century

17th June 202122nd June 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Maria Stepanova’s memoir, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale, weaves together storytelling, culture, art, and philosophy to form a mosaic image of her family’s history.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, family history, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Maria Stepanova, memoir, memory, Russian literature, Sasha Dugdale

Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children About Race by Pragya Agarwal

28th April 202128th April 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Packed with fascinating stories, thorough research and helpful definitions, Dr Pragya Agarwal’s book, Wish We Knew What to Say, is essential reading for all educators, parents and care-givers when it comes to talking with children about race.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: anti-racism, Books, Child development, Childhood, children, Dialogue Books, non-fiction, Pragya Agarwal, Race, Racism, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Wish We Knew What to Say, Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children About Race

Disagreements in lockdown by Shamini Sriskandarajah

29th March 202129th March 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

In this compelling personal essay, Shamini Sriskandarajah recounts a year of trying to connect with friends over text, email, phone and post; of having to explain racism to one white friend and denounce violent sexism to another.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Asian women, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Corona Virus, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic

Steve McQueen’s Year 3 at Tate Britain

8th December 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen’s epic Year 3 project brings together more than 3000 class portraits from over 1500 primary schools to commemorate a most formative time in a child’s educational life. The result, says our writer Shamini Sriskandarajah, is at once illuminating and moving.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Childhood, children, Duveen Galleries, dyslexia, filmmaker, learning difficulties, London, Maria Balshaw, Photography, portraits, Primary schools, Small Axe, Steve McQueen, Tate, Tate Britain, Year 3

‘Cypress’ by Shamini Sriskandarajah

27th June 202027th June 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

In Shamini Sriskandarajah’s short and beautiful poem, ‘Cypress’, two people sit under the quiet warmth of a leylandii tree reflecting on past moments of togetherness.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Cypress, Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Flora and Fauna, Poetry, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Trees, Usha Akella

Tracing the ‘bounding line’: William Blake at Tate Britain

13th February 20206th December 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Dismissed in his lifetime as mad, William Blake is now lauded as a visionary genius, one whose art and poetry have influenced many generations of creatives. Shamini Sriskandarajah visits Tate Britain’s recent retrospective to find out why.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, drawing, eighteenth-century, engraving, Mythology, Tate, Tate Britain, William Blake
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