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Rajni Mala Khelawan

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Rajni Mala Khelawan is an Indo-Fijian Canadian author. Her two published novels are The End of the Dark and Stormy Night (2008) and Kalyana (2016). Her first children's book is I am a Hindu (2024). Khelawan was a visiting writer at The University of the South Pacific, Fiji Islands in August 2011, and a Writer in Residence at Fiji National University in 2014. In addition, Khelawan was profiled on hit TV and radio shows such as Bollywood Boulevard, CBC Radio, Omni South Asian News, Asian Magazine TV, and NUTV. She completed her Master of Arts Degree at University of Toronto. Her third novel In the Shade of a Bougainvillea Hedge is looking for a home. Her academic research studied gender and ritual among Fijian Hindu women under the prestigiou ...more

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“Everyone has one beginning and one ending, but life is made up of what's in between: the connections, the discoveries, the triumphs, and the losses.”
Rajni Mala Khelawan, Kalyana

“I could see the sun rise from our kitchen window. It always started with a speck of deep orange far in the distance. Slowly the speck would become larger and larger, at last spreading across the sky in a brilliant fan. Then it seemed as though all of Fiji would light up. Birds would chirp. Caterpillars would awaken, stretching and yawning, wriggling their little bodies along leaves and twigs. Frogs would croak to clear their throats. Butterflies would spread their wings as the lizards disappeared into their holes. And the newspapers --they would lay the claim that theirs was the first newspaper published in the world that day.”
Rajni Mala Khelawan, Kalyana

“What had Pope John Paul said about our country once? “It's the way the world should be.”
Rajni Mala Khelawan, Kalyana
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“What had Pope John Paul said about our country once? “It's the way the world should be.”
Rajni Mala Khelawan, Kalyana
tags: fiji

“I could see the sun rise from our kitchen window. It always started with a speck of deep orange far in the distance. Slowly the speck would become larger and larger, at last spreading across the sky in a brilliant fan. Then it seemed as though all of Fiji would light up. Birds would chirp. Caterpillars would awaken, stretching and yawning, wriggling their little bodies along leaves and twigs. Frogs would croak to clear their throats. Butterflies would spread their wings as the lizards disappeared into their holes. And the newspapers --they would lay the claim that theirs was the first newspaper published in the world that day.”
Rajni Mala Khelawan, Kalyana

“Everyone has one beginning and one ending, but life is made up of what's in between: the connections, the discoveries, the triumphs, and the losses.”
Rajni Mala Khelawan, Kalyana

“Just like the birds that migrated south in search of the warmth of the sun, leaving behind the harshness of winter, so the Indians came to Fiji with lotas filled with hope, fleeing the chill of poverty.”
Rajni Mala Khelawan, Kalyana

“For every woman's life, regardless of the circumstances of her past and present, was entwined with pain and suffering.”
Rajni Mala Khelawan, Kalyana

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