This exciting new art exhibition at Somerset House explores the iniquitous colonial salt tax. The artists, Hylozoic Desires, have drawn inspiration in part from my work on a powerful courtesan, Mayalee, who defied the British at Sambhar Salt Lake in the 1830s. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/29/london-somerset-house-to-reveal-salt-stair-after-fire-renovations