When Mrs Mehra leaves Delhi she retires in one of ‘the vast new satellite townships on the eastern fringes of the metropolis’.
Mrs Mehra found Raju through her old friend Mrs Sethi, who herself found him through her own domestic, Sandesh. Raju and Sandesh were from the same terminal village in eastern Uttar Pradesh, and may even have been cousins, though the truth of this is hard to know.
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‘Most of the rooms in these photos have since been bulldozed or burned down.’
A photoessay by Bruno Fert, with an introduction by Nam Le. Shortlisted for the Amnesty Media Awards.
‘My first experience of “permanent” employment – a coveted job in publishing – was depressing for a number of reasons.’
Amber Husain on neoliberalism and workers’ rights.
‘The Wapichan are proud of their adoption of technology, and see no reason why it should make their land needs and entitlements any the less.’
An excerpt from A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World by Fred Pearce.
‘Maxwell is a privileged person in an unprivileged place. Rarer still is that she is a female charged with a sex crime.’
An essay by Chris Dennis from Granta 156: Interiors.
‘It’s laughable to suggest France’s present approach to policing is only a response to the violence and destruction wrought by the gilets jaunes’.
Chris Knapp on the systemic racism and violence of the French police.
Deepti Kapoor on travel, authenticity and the peculiarity of being Indian in Uganda.
‘None of these people give a shit that a flock of birds is going to choke to death on those balloons, be they pink or blue.’
Fiction by Dainerys Machado Vento, translated by Will Vanderhyden.
A new poem by Kayo Chingonyi from the forthcoming collection A Blood Condition.
