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Souvid Datta

London
As seen in: Medium, The Guardian, VICE, The Quint, Lens culture Magazine, Roads and Kingdoms
Multimedia journo & film maker | Amateur nomad | Politics geek & occasional crazy percussionist. Re/Tweets ≠ Endorsements
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Photo Feature: India’s Little Known Musical Traditions

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By Souvid Datta
| The Quint Verified
Photo Feature: India’s Little Known Musical Traditions SHARE, SAVE, COMMENT A singer performs traditional Baul songs in a village in Uttar Pradesh. (Photo: Souvid Datta) Souvid DattaUpdated: 00H 04M AGO (This story was originally published on 21 June 2016 and has been reposted from The Quint's archives to mark World Music Day.) India is famous for its diversity; climatic, linguistic, traditional and cultural. Across the country’s 29 states, over 500 dialects are spoken.
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China: The Human Price of Pollution - Photographs and text by Souvid Datta | LensCulture

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By Souvid Datta, Claudio Cambon
| Lens culture Magazine Verified
The Shuogang group steel factory on the outskirts of Beijing. Despite the government promising to close many major polluting factories within city limits following the 2008 Olympics several are still operating behind closed doors. At dawn every day the factory waste-water pipe illegally spews hazardous chemicals into a local lake. © Souvid Datta A worker peers out from beneath the miniature scale model of Beijing's vast central districts, while developers discuss above.
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Inside China's Cancer Villages: Q&A with Souvid Datta - Roads & Kingdoms

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By Pauline Eiferman Verified, Souvid Datta
| Roads and Kingdoms
A few years ago, the younger brother of photographer Souvid Datta’s close friend was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was 13 and lived in Beijing. The cause: overexposure to small air particle pollutants, which severely exacerbated his existing respiratory problems. After a series of failed treatments, the boy passed away two years later. It was Datta’s first contact with pollution in China and it had a deep impact.
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Bad Earth

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By Souvid Datta
| ChinaFile
The promise to “pollute now, clean up later” was always dubious. During the early phase of China’s economic take-off, this was the excuse of environmental despoilers and growth-driven officials. They would argue that all advanced countries go through a dirty stage of development so “let us do the same and we will deal with the consequences later when we are richer—just as the West did.” This logic was far from convincing even then.
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The Price of a Child

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By Souvid Datta
| Medium
Working with multimedia, text and stills my coverage will begin this January from the borders of Bangladesh (Nonchapota) and Nepal (Forbesganj) - hotspots for underage trafficking into West Bengal — and both areas where I have worked in the past. I will follow the major trafficking trails from these countries and interview local ‘recruiters’ and victims’ families. My contacts at Apne Aap, an Indian NGO, will be a major resource in the organisation of this.
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