‘Transformed From Women to Border Guards’
Indian photographer Poulomi Basu has captured images of the first batch of women soldiers guarding the dangerous India-Pakistan border. Many of these woman soldiers are young and poor and Basu photographed them as they transformed from women to soldiers. Host Marco Werman talks with Poulomi Basu.
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