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Radio 3,13 Mar 2014,15 mins

SeriesCommonwealth Questions

Farah Ghuznavi

The Essay

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A series of five essays from writers around the Commonwealth which start on Commonwealth Day 10th March and tackle the past, present and future of this unique international organisation. Farah Ghuznavi from Bangladesh has been Writer in Residence for Commonwealth Writers. She saw the Commonwealth as an irrelevance in her early life. Here she explains what changed her mind.

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