Surviving 2017: The year of conflicts, tragedies and triumphs in pictures
Few would call it the best of times, and it was of course a time of suffering for many. Images of a year of conflicts, tragedies, defeats and, yes, triumphs too.
WITHOUT A COUNTRY
The Rohingya crisis or the Rohingya genocide. Call it what you will, the evidence of industrial scale rape, murder and ethnic cleansing was overwhelming as some 600,000 human beings fled Myanmar for refuge in the unlikely haven of Bangladesh. But that country has of course absorbed earlier waves of refugees propelled by state sponsored pogroms in Myanmar. Many marvelled that 'even Buddhists' were capable of such cruelty. But why should they be any different? The Indian government (like China) responded mostly with cold realpolitik and a dose of home grown Islamophobia.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's epic film Padmavati, about a legendary late medieval Rajput queen, starring
