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Author, journalist and award-winning documentary-maker, Pamela Nowicka, has an ongoing love affair with Southeast Asia. Following an accidental visit to Bali, “I planned to stay six days and ended up staying six weeks”, she has explored, worked and lived in both Indonesia and India extensively. Pamela is fascinated by the strength and variety of manifestations of culture which are inextricably woven into the fabric of everyday life in South Asia,” she says. “We need to recognise this and value its contribution to social, societal, spiritual and emotional well-being…in stark contrast to the hedonistic worship of consumption and so-called fashion which passes for culture in much of the west.” As a journalist, Pamela has written stories on female infanticide to spiritual travel to commenting on the Bali bombings in the Guardian. She has advised a number of NGOs on media strategy and helped organise o Make Poverty History coalition to the Gleneagles G8 summit. She has recently returned from South India and Sri Lanka where she was interviewing tsunami survivors. Following extended research in Indonesia and India, Pamela is currently working on a book analysing the global impacts of travel. She is developing a number of film and television projects, as well as freelancing for publications like The Guardian, New Internationalist and Spirit and Destiny. Her novel, Heart of Light – one woman’s struggle with martial arts, magic and destiny, was set in various locations in Indonesia. Pamela has tried hard to learn Indonesian and Hindi and is now wrestling with Tamil. To contact the author please email: pamelanowicka38@hotmail.com
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