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Blog postMy poem “Somewhere in the Middle East After One War Ended that’s in Chant of a Million Women (2017) is published in Why We Are in Iraq today.
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Blog postTwo of my poems are included in this anthology that celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank. Congrats to all the other writers featured here and thanks to the editors for putting together this amazing collection.
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Blog postThis review ofI Exist. Therefore I Am by Jim Bennett was posted on Amazon and Goodreads. You can also read it below.
Customer Review Jim Bennett 4.0 out of 5 starsnine short stories – about repression in India, against women. Disturbing. February 4, 2019
Format: Kindle Edition As always, do not let my star count override your judgement of content. More on the stars, counting, and my rating challenges later.
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Blog postA review of I Exist. Therefore I Am by Swapna posted on her blog Sappy’s World. You can also read it below.
Book Title: I Exist. Therefore I Am
Author: Shirani Rajapakse
Format: Kindle edition
Book Title:
The title of the book is ‘I Exist. Therefore I Am’ is very strong and interesting.
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The book cover is the digital image of the ‘Woman’ symbol underwater. Which clearly gives a picture that the womanhood is getting drowned in the wate -
Blog postThanks to Suzanna Anderson for the review of I Exist. Therefore I Am in this issue of Magnolia Review. You can read it at the Magnolia Review site, at Amazon or Goodreads, or see below.
Rajapakse has traveled to India often, and these stories “…were written at two stages of my life and represents the eight years I spent in India, working and travelling to cities and also some of the remote places where I encountered many instances of negativity towards women and girls. Some of the inc -
Blog postWhat a wonderful way to start the year with a poem published in a Lady/Liberty/Lit. Response to a Man is from #ChantofaMillionWomen
Response to a Man January 1, 2019
Shirani Rajapakse
You can’t mold me into
something you want—those
rough hands trying to create
dreams that can only shatter.
You are no sculptor and cannot shape
perfection from mud nor
chisel beauty out of a slab of granite.
I am flesh and bloo -
Blog postA review of I Exist. Therefore I Am by Annette Spratte on her blog A Chant with Annette. She also posted a shorter version on goodreads a few weeks back.
Thanks for the Chatworthy Read Badge. That was a lovely surprise.
I Exist. Therefore I Am by Shirani Rajapakse This collection of short stories by highly acclaimed Sri Lanka author Shirani Rajapakse has touched me and left me with one dire, unanswered question: Why?
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Blog postAn interview about why I write about women with Andrea Singh on Bibliophiles Cafe.
Interview With Poet and Author Shirani Rajapakse Posted by EverydayGoddess on November 27, 2018
Shirani Rajapakse is an internationally published, award winning poet and short story writer. She won the Cha “Betrayal” Poetry Contest 2013 and was a finalist in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards 2013. Her collection of short stories Breaking News (Vijitha -
Blog postNo One Wants to Know, a poem from Chant of a Million Women was featured in Writing in a Woman’s Voice.
Writing In A Woman’s Voice Tuesday, 27 November 2018 No One Wants to Know
by Shirani Rajapakse
It was only much later,
when the world had gone to sleep and
awoken many times, that they found out.
By then it was far too late.
People had moved on. Old news was of no use,
they yawned as they picked up the papers
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Blog postThis review of I Exist. Therefore I Am by Gordon Long was posted on Renaissance Writer as well as on Goodreads.
Renaissance Writer REVIEW “I Exist. Therefore I Am” by Shirani Rajapakse by renaissanceadmin • November 25, 2018 • 0 Comments This is a book of short stories chronicling the unremitting horror of being a woman in India. It is poetic, descriptive, and unrelenting in its portrayal of what life is like for the unlucky woman who is poor, unable to produce son
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The Dreamers Anthology: Writing Inspired by the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank
Mar 29, 2019
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