BANGKOK -- On the day the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in August 2021 Shataakshi Verma fled the country, fearing that her work for the Ministry of Social Justice and the Art of Freedom Project, a collective running cultural workshops, meant she wouldn’t be safe. She was right.
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