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’

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

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

  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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Disagreements in lockdown by Shamini Sriskandarajah

  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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Steve McQueen’s Year 3 at Tate Britain

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

  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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