Sandhya Rao
OPIUM POPPY by Hubert Haddad Aurum Books, an imprint of Social Science Press, New Delhi, 2015, 126 pp., price not stated
November 2015, volume 39, No 11

Recently, an Australian television channel telecast a documentary about an Afghan now domiciled in Australia, returning to Kabul to revive a music school. The success of the school, scored not just in terms of the music the students and teachers create, but the unique stories of desires and struggles, testifies to the tenacity of the human spirit.

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