For Shankari Chandran, home isn’t always where you happen to be standing. It can’t be pinned down to a set of coordinates. Sometimes, you won’t find it on a map. The Miles Franklin award-winning author and human rights lawyer, 49, is telling me about a high school project conducted by her daughter in which she asked three generations of women in her family where they considered home to be.
“My grandmother thinks of home as Ceylon, which is a word you don’t hear any more,” she laughs. “My mother thinks of home as Sri Lanka. I said London because it had given me my husband and children and a job in social justice that I am so passionate about. She pauses. “I am very attached to certain places in my life.”
