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Skulls, smoke, and spirits: Honouring Thailand’s forgotten dead

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Amid swirling smoke and the crackle of flames from a towering crematorium, volunteers in Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province carefully transport sun-dried, purified human bones during the sacred Lang Pacha ritual at the Dhamma of Buddha Nakhon Ratchasima Foundation. The solemn scene, framed by rows of exposed skulls, offers a haunting glimpse into the region’s enduring…

South Carolina statue honouring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist

alishpagda08@gmail.com5 months ago09 mins

COLUMBIA: A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist who dismantled most of the former slave’s work after the Civil War. The Smalls statue would stand along the sidewalk where thousands of children on…