THRICE OPPRESSED
THE HAUNTED: The eyes are the mirror to the soul. And Bissanya’s gaze speaks a thousand words, speaking volumes of the horror of being raped by an upper caste man just a month after her child was born. Fortunately,
her husband has been supportive through her traumatic time.
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Sudharak Olwe (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based documentary photographer,
whose work has been featured in national publications and exhibited in Mumbai,
Delhi, Malmo (Sweden), Lisbon, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Washington.
He has drawn immense admiration and awe in the Indian subcontinent for revealing
the naked reality of life’s tragicomic social theater in 2005, he was one of the four awards for the
National Geographic’s “All Roads Photography Program”.
He was awarded Padma Shri
one of India’s highest civilian honors for his social work in 2016.
