Railsong by Rahul Battacharya sri Lanka Artists Peter Allen

Peter Allen

sections look at plants that have helped to create our material world

Set in a land ruled by an oppressive military regime

mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people: heart disease

one such figurehead in Buddhist art is Ananda Kentish

Railsong by Rahul Battacharya sri Lanka Artists Peter AllenIn a young country charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless child of a railway worker, pines for a life freed of oppressive domesticity. As diesel engines replace steam, and the calamitous churn of drought, famine, strike chokes the railway township, she dares to imagine a different future for herself. Boarding a train she flees westwards to Bombay, even as the country rumbles towards Emergency. In the frenetic landscape of the great modern