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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Raghu Rai with his wife, the architect and heritage conservationist, Gurmeet Sangha Rai in 1989.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ “Thousands of refugees were crossing over the border into India. I went to Calcutta when the 1971 war broke out in what was then East Pakistan. Thousands of refugees began to pour into India across the border, and the government was simply not equipped to deal with the catastrophe. The refugees had to fend for themselves, and lived inside empty sewage pipes, makeshift tents or out in the open. This was one of my most important assignments,” Raghu Rai told NDTV in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Burial Of Unknown Child, 1984]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Veena maestro S. Balachander at Mahabalipuram, 1988]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ In 2017, his daughter Avani Rai made a documentary about him in 2017, ‘Raghu Rai: An Unframed Portrait’, following him on a trip to Kashmir.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ A stalwart of Indian photography, Raghu Rai’s genius was not confined to catastrophe alone. He had an equal gift for capturing the ordinary as well as the extraordinary.]]></image:caption>
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