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Inmates Perform Valmiki Pratibha

Practitioner:

Calcutta Presidency Jail, Alokananda Roy

Date:

Jul 7 2007

Alokananda Roy walked into Calcutta's Presidency Jail on International Women's Day, 2007. The Indian classical dancer had been invited to watch female inmates perform, but it was the men who caught her eye. "They shook me," she says. "Their body language — it was as though they had no future, nothing to look forward to."

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