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Dispatches from Kolkata

Remembering Harry

By Sandip Roy
Published May 17, 2023 at 4:40 AM PDT
An old Harry Belafonte album cover in Kolkata.
Bishan Samaddar
An old Harry Belafonte album cover in Kolkata.

Harry Belafonte's death provoked an outpouring of mourning in India though many learned about his civil rights activism only through his obituaries.

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