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Marching in the Dark review – rural Indian widows show stunning resilience as they battle poverty and taboos

Kinshuk Surjan’s documentary follows women in dire financial straits whose bereavement compounds their social plight, which they confront together Out in rural India, a crisis casts a dark cloud over the seemingly tranquil vistas of wheat fields and soy farms. Over the past 20 years, more than 400,000 farmers have killed themselves, beset by mounting debts and low market prices for crops. Shot in Maharashtra, the sta

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Phuong Le
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Film
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Kinshuk Surjan’s documentary follows women in dire financial straits whose bereavement compounds their social plight, which they confront together Out in rural India, a crisis casts a dark cloud over the seemingly tranquil vistas of wheat fields and soy farms. Over the past 20 years, more than 400,000 farmers have killed themselves, beset by mounting debts and low market prices for crops. Shot in Maharashtra, the sta
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    Marching in the Dark review – rural Indian widows show stunning resilience as they battle poverty and taboos

    Kinshuk Surjan’s documentary follows women in dire financial straits whose bereavement compounds their social plight, which they confront together Out in rural India, a crisis casts a dark cloud over the seemingly tranquil vistas of wheat fields and soy farms. Over the past 20 years, more than 400,000 farmers have killed themselves, beset by mounting debts and low market prices for crops. Shot in Maharashtra, the sta

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