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Sunil Gupta |
| 1963 |
Born
in New Delhi |
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Lives and works in London, UK and New Delhi, India |
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Education |
| 2005 |
MA Honorary, University of Surrey, UK
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| 1983 |
MA Royal College of Art, London |
| 1981 |
Dip. in photography, West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham |
| 1978 |
Lisette Model and Philippe Halsman, The New School, New York |
| 1977 |
B Comm, Concordia University, Montreal |
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Solo
Exhibitions |
| 2009 |
Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi
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Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto |
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Sepia Gallery, New York |
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Bombay Art Gallery |
| 2007 |
Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai |
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Belfast Exposed Photography |
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“Imagining Childhood: Living with HIV in Delhi”, The Art Gallery, College of State, Island, New York |
| 2006 |
“Looking for Langston (with Isaac Julien)”, Metro Pictures, New York |
| 2005 |
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| 2004 |
“A Time to Love”, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
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Museum of Contemporary Photography, UC Riverside, California |
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“Tales of a City-Delhi 1620–1720”, Lighthouse Gallery, Poole, Dorset, UK |
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“Pictures From Here”, Habitat Centre, New Delhi |
| 2003 |
“Pictures From Here”, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton |
| 2001 |
“Homelands” St. Paul’s School, London, travelling to Admit One Gallery, New York, California Museum of Photography, Riverside/CA, Sepia International, New York, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, City Art Gallery, Leicester, London Print Workshop |
| 2000 |
“From Here to Eternity”, Gallery Sepulchar, Manila |
| 1999 |
“From Here to Eternity. Photoworks 1987–1999”, Admit One Gallery, New York |
| 1995 |
“Trespass 3”, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, travelling to YYZ, Toronto, Portfolio, Edinburgh, Bedford Hill Gallery, London |
| 1994 |
Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver |
| 1991 |
“Film in the Cities”, St. Paul, Minnesota (USA)
Theatre Workshop Edinburgh (Festival) |
| 1988 |
“Social Security”, The Showroom, London |
| 1986 |
Leica Gallery Wetzlar
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South Hill Park, Bracknell |
| 1984 |
Museum & Art Galleries Leicester
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Museum & Art Galleries Nottingham |
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UN International Maritime Organisation London |
| 1983 |
Commonwealth Institute London |
| 1980 |
India International Centre New Delhi |
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Group
Exhibitions |
| 2008 |
“Indian Photography”, Barcelona
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ARCO, Vadehra Art Gallery, Madrid |
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“Modern India”, Fine Art Museum, Valencia |
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“Street & Studio”, Tate Modern, London |
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“Masculinities”, Jawarharlal Nehru University, Delhi |
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“Make Art, Stop AIDS”, Fowler Museum at University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2007 |
“HORN PLEASE. The Narrative in Contemporary Indian Art”, Kunstmuseum Bern
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“Quietscapes”, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City |
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“Delhi, with Gauri Gill”, India International Centre, Delhi |
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Photo Espana, Madrid |
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“Public Places/Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India”, The Newark Museum, Newark |
| 2006 |
“The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in the Visual Arts since 1960”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| 2004–05 |
“Faces in the Crowd”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (travelling exhibition) |
| 2004 |
“Invalid”, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London
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“(A World Without) Pity”, video screened at Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Toronto |
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“A Place Called Home”, NSA Gallery, Durban, travelling to National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town |
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“Masala”, The University of Connecticut Museum, USA |
| 2002–03 |
“Self Evident”, Tate Britain, London |
| 2002 |
“Facing AIDS”, New York and Barcelona |
| 2001 |
“Typical Men”, University of Nottingham (travelling exhibition) |
| 2000 |
“Urban Futures”, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |
| 1999 |
“Broken Windows, Fractured Mirrors”, Photographic Resource Centre, Boston
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“Bodies of Resistance”, Real Art Ways, Hartford CT USA (travelling exhibition) |
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“Crown Jewels”, Hamburg & Berlin |
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“Sunil Gupta & Ajamu”, Standpoint Gallery, London |
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“000zerozerozero”, Whitechapel art Gallery, London |
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“Making Visible the Invisible”, Dominion Arts Centre, Southall, London |
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“Strukturveränderungen”, Chateau de Vaudrémont, Forum des Arts, Franco-Allemand, France |
| 1998 |
“Out of India”, Queens Museum of Art, New York |
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“Transforming the Crown”, Caribbean Cultural Centre, New York |
| 1994 |
Havana Biennale, Ludwig Forum, Aachen |
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Havana Biennale, Cuba |
| 1993 |
They Call it Love NGBK, Berlin |
| 1992 |
“Fine Material for a Dream”, Harris Museum, Preston (travelling exhibition)
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“How Do I Look?”, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (travelling exhibition) |
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“Queer Landscape”, Evergreen State College, Olympia/Wash. |
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“Dis/Orient”, UIC Gallery 400, Chicago |
| 1991 |
“Shocks to the System”, The South Bank Centre, London |
| 1990 |
“Post Morality”, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
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“Autoportraits”, Camerawork, London |
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“Ecstatic Antibodies”, Impressions Gallery of Photography, York (travelling exhibition) |
| 1989 |
“Fabled Territories”, Leeds City Art Gallery (travelling exhibition)
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“Partners in Crime”, Camerawork, London |
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“Through the Looking Glass”, Barbican Gallery, London |
| 1988 |
“Monologue/Dialogue”, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago |
| 1987 |
“The Body Politic”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London (travelling exhibition) |
| 1986 |
“Same Difference”, Camerawork, London
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“Darshan”, GLC/Camerawork, London |
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“The Black Experience”, Brixton Art Gallery |
| 1985 |
“Riverside Open”, Riverside Studios, London |
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“Staying On”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London |
| 1984 |
Five Dials Gallery, London |
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Brilliance Books, People’s Gallery, London |
| 1983 |
“Snap”, Oval House, London
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“New Contemporaries”, ICA, London |
| 1982 |
“The Living Arts”, Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 1980 |
“Salford ’80”, Salford |
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Film and Video |
| 2004 |
“Decibel”, Documentary on the work of the Arts Council of England’s project on Diversity in the Visual Arts in the UK
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“Stuart Hall on Photography”, Interview with Stuart Hall |
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“Sarindar Dhaliwal: Record Keeping”, Documentary about artist’s work produced and authored as DVD |
| 2003 |
“(A World Without) Pity”, Artist’s video |
| 2002 |
“Wong Hoy Cheong: Indigenous Skins”, Documentary about artist’s work produced and authored as DVD |
| 2001 |
“Joy Gregory: Cinderella Stories”, Documentary about artist’s work produced and authored as DVD |
| 2000 |
“Seven Days in May”, Artist’s video |
| 1998/99 |
“Cock Crazy or Scared Stiff”, Co-directed with Laura MacGregor for Avid Productions Leicester
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Commissioned to make a short, 8 min., film by Abseil Productions for the series “Out on Tuesday”; a profile of the artist Alan de Souza; “deSouza” |
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Commissioned to make a short, 4 min., film by Abseil Productions, aired on Channel 4 in March 1989; “Indian Postcard” |
| 1987 |
Original photographs used in “This is not an Aids Advertisement”, by Isaac Julien/Sankofa Film & Video |
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Public Collections |
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University of Connecticut
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University of Southampton
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Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
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Fine Arts Museum, Houston |
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Arts Council of Great Britain |
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National Museum of Film, TV and Photography, Bradford
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Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
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Cartwright Hall, Bradford |
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Awards |
| 2005 |
Master of Arts, Honorary Degree, Surrey University, UK |
| 2003 |
Artist in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY |
| 2000–02 |
AHRB Fellowship in Creative & Performing Arts, University of Southampton, Department of English |
| 2001 |
Arts Council of England, Photographer in Residence for the Diversity Project |
| 2000 |
Canada Council, book award for publishing “The New Republics: Contemporary Art from Australia, Canada and South Africa” |
| 1999 |
British Council (Awards to cover travel and installation of my work in Boston, France and Germany) |
| 1995 |
The Essex Fellowship in Photography (An artist in residence programme sponsored by Essex County Council, Eastern Arts Board and Focal Point Gallery, Southend) |
| 1994 |
British Council (Award to cover travel and installation of my work at the Havana Biennial, Cuba) |
| 1993 |
London Arts Board Individual Artist’s Grant |
| 1992 |
Arts Council (Touring Exhibition and Events Travel Grant to enable a curating internship at the New Museum of Modern Art, New York) |
| 1992 |
Yorkshire & Humberside Arts (Artists’ Award to make new works in the current year) |
| 1992 |
British Council (Travel Award to cover international travel to Australia to represent British work in the exhibition “Who Do You Take Me For?” at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane & subsequently on an Australian tour) |
| 1990–91 |
Arts Council (Research Grant to research the potential for a visual art and book project, Disrupted Borders) |
| 1990 |
British Council (Travel Award to cover international travel to India to give a series of lectures on British photography and research “An Economy of Signs”) |
| 1989–90 |
Arts Council (Project Development Grant to realise the exhibition and book project “Ecstatic Antibodies”) |
| 1988–89 |
Arts Council (Project Research Grant to research the exhibition and book project “Ecstatic Antibodies”) |
| 1988 |
British Council (Travel Award to mount the exhibition “Pretended Family Relationships”, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago) |
| 1983 |
RCA-3M (Royal College of Art graduating students’ Portfolio Award) |
| 1980 |
Thames Television Travel Design Bursary (2nd year student’s award to realise an international project) |
| 1972 |
University Entrance Scholarship (towards tuition fees whilst attending Concordia University, Montréal) |
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Publications |
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“Pictures From Here”, Chris Boot (ed.), Autograph/Chris Boot, London 2003 |
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“Exiles”, self published catalogue, London 2000
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“From Here to eternity”, self published catalogue, London 2000 |
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“Sunil Gupta/Trespass”, Autograph, London 1998 |
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“Disrupted Borders”, Rivers Oram Press (ed.), London/Boston 1993 |
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“An Economy of Signs”, Rivers Oram Press (ed.), London/Boston 1990 |
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“Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the Aids Mythology”, with Tessa Boffin (ed.), Rivers Oram Press, London 1990 |
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“Sunil Gupta at Admit One Gallery”, New York, Jan. 2000, reviewed in the New York Times, Flash Art, Art in America, India Today |
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“Sunil Gupta, Ajamu”, Review, Time Out, October 6–13, 1999 London |
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„Exiles, Sunil Gupta“ 1999 (catalogue) |
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„Strukturveränderungen“, Château de Vaudrémont, Forum des Arts, Franco-Allemande, France 1999 (catalogue) |
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“Out of India”, Queens Museum of Art, New York 1998 (catalogue)
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“Transforming the Crown”, Caribbean Cultural Centre, New York 1998 (catalogue)
Carver, Antonia: “Getting Them Between the Eyes: An interview with Sunil Gupta”, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 16, Sydney |
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“Memory, History and Language: The Work of Dominique Blain”, catalogue essay, Arnolfini, Bristol 1997 |
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“Culture Wars: Race and Queer Art”, essay in Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Culture, Peter Horne and Reina Lewis (eds.), Routledge, London 1996 |
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“Curating the ‘New International’ Visual Arts”, essay in Naming a Practice: Curatorial Strategies for the Future, Peter White (ed.), Walter Philips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Canada 1996 |
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“Cocks and Other Contradictions: The Work of Robert Mapplethorpe”, essay in Portfolio magazine, Number 24, December 1996 |
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“Sunil Gupta”, Creative Camera, Issue 339, April/May 1996 (review) |
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“TRESPASS 2”, Exposure, Vol. 29, No. 2/3, Dallas 1994
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“TRESPAcS 1”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 1995 (catalogue) |
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“Cultural Revolution”, Artists Newsletter, February 1995 |
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“India Postcard”, Queer Looks, John Greyson, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar (eds.), Routledge, New York & London 1993 |
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“Introduction”, Disrupted Borders, Sunil Gupta (ed.), Rivers Oram Press 1993 |
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“Black Boys, Shooting Back”, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, PICA Press, Perth (Australia) 1992 |
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“Cowboys & Indians: Dancing with Hollywood”, BAZAAR Magazine No. 17, 1991 |
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“Photography, Sexuality & Cultural Difference: The Emergence of Black Lesbian and Gay Identities in the UK”, SF Camerawork, San Francisco 1990 |
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“No Solution”, Ecstatic Antibodies, Tessa Boffin & Sunil Gupta, Eds.; Rivers Oram Press, 1990 |
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“Homosexualities – Part I”, Ten. 8, Issue 31, 1988
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“Black, Brown & White”, Coming On Strong, Shepherd & Wallis, Allen & Unwin (eds.), 1989 |
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“Coincidental Commissions”, Work Stations, Anna Fox, Camerawork 1988 |
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“From India with Love”, Lesbian & Gay Socialist, Winter 1987 |
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“Northern Media/Southern Lives”, Photography/Politics 2, Watney, Spence & Holland (eds.), Methuen 1987 |
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“The Rhetoric of Aids”, with Simon Watney, Screen, Jan./Feb. 1986 |
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“Camerawork”, The British Journal of Photography, 1986 |
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“Desire & Black Men”, Ten. 8, 1986 (reprinted in Critical Decade, Ten. 8 publication 1992) |
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“Lovers: Ten Years On”, Creative Camera, 1986 |
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“Closeted by Caste and Class”, Inside Asia, 1985 |
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“The Hidden India”, Gay Times, 1984 |
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“Ten Years On”, Square Peg, 1984 |
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“Best Foot Forward”, South: The Third World Magazine, 1983 |
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“They Dare Not Speak Its Name in Delhi”, Third World Review, The Guardian, Nov. 26, 1982 |
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