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‘Images you can smell’ – novelist Orhan Pamuk on Dayanita Singh’s mesmerising photos of India’s disintegrating archives

Where does a state’s power truly reside? Not in its military, says the celebrated writer, but in the Kafkaesque files it keeps on its citizens – and no one showed this more brilliantly than SinghI first met Dayanita Singh in India in 2011. Her house wa…

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Portraits of hope: the fight to protect girls from conflict – in pictures

The International Rescue Committee, in partnership with Gagosian, has put together an exhibition called Protecting Milestones: Portraits of Girls in Conflict, which is on display at the Gagosian shop in Burlington Arcade, London, until 7 May. For every…

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Women behind the lens: ‘She dreams of competing outside Pakistan but it’s hopeless’

Khaula Jamil explores the difficulties faced by Bengali-speakers in Pakistan, and how they are filtering down the generationsThere are two kinds of Bengalis in Pakistan. The first are those who were living in West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) and ch…

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‘Every time the tide recedes, it’s a new world’: Mumbai’s marine life revealed

A group of sea life enthusiasts is documenting a wealth of species thriving in the shadow of India’s most populous city, from glowing coral to octopusesA hidden forest of algae sponges and hydroids photographed at low tide; a stunning night image of gr…

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