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AUDIO: ‘Rigour’: A Poem Digs Beneath ‘Third World’ Tropes in the Media
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:42
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Khairani Barokka’s poignant poem highlights how Western reports of casualties in the developing world, even when the dead in question are children, are often recorded with indifference towards the human life lost.
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