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Basi Gol and a girls' volleyball team play in front of the Bamiyan Buddha statues before the 2021 Taliban takeover — and after it, when the ground they played on is taken from them along with everything else. Nominated for the Pernilleprisen audience award, 2025.
“Two prisoners, waiting in solitary for the door to open. His crime is being Buddha. Mine is being a woman.”
— Basi Gol, addressing the broken Buddha