Nirvair Singh – The Landless Kings | LensCulture

Nirvair Singh – The Landless Kings | LensCulture

Who are you? Where does your name come from? Where has your family lived for most of their lives? Who are your ancestors? Where do you hail from? Where do you belong?

These questions are all linked to one thing – land. Identity, race, culture, and even

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The Rohingyas of Myanmar live their lives in a strange conundrum. The name of their tribe indicates the Arakan or the Rakhine state that they belong to, but they don’t live there. They live in camps, they live in the margins, they live along invisible lines drawn between their country and a few polite others. They live at the mercy of their killers.