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Centralia: Photographs by Poulomi Basu
Images of an unreported war in India
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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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