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It’s Chai Time!

Life & Faith

Author Shankari Chandran believes storytelling may be our most powerful weapon in the search for hope, truth, empathy and justice.

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Shankari Chandran is a Sri Lankan Thamil Australian author. Her third novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens won Australia’s most prestigious literary award, the Miles Franklin, last year. In this interview with Life & Faith, Shankari shares her story, her inspirations and the power of storytelling as a carrier of hope, an antidote to injustice and a catalyst for empathy. 

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