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“Indigenous children were forcibly separated from their families”

Kavita Puri is a journalist and broadcaster for BBC Radio 4. Her new series about the Bengal famine, Three Million, will be available soon. See page 57 for more details

I RECENTLY SAT DOWN TO WATCH THE LATEST incarnation of LM Montgomery’s classic novel with my younger daughter. Reading the book and watching the 1980s television adaptation

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