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Centralia: Photographs by Poulomi Basu
Images of an unreported war in India
[Poulomi Basu]
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
WE HEAR very little, if anything, about the long-running civil war between Maoist Naxalite guerillas and the forces of central government in the central Indian region of Bastar.
There, the indigenous population has been battling against corruption and central government indifference to their situation for decades and this book is a visual injunction to pay attention.
Indian photographer Poulomi Basu, a women’s rights and transmedia activist and journalist, has been working on Centralia for nine years in an ever-deeper journey into a labyrinthine conflict over land, resources and identity.
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