Breach Candy | Samanth Subramanian | Granta Magazine

Breach Candy

Samanth Subramanian

‘There are clubs like the Breach Candy Club all over the Indian subcontinent: relics of the Raj, institutions that were set up as bolt-holes for the British, where they could retreat to row or swim or play cricket or race horses.’

Samanth Subramanian

Samanth Subramanian’s journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, WIRED and Harper’s, among other publications. This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War, was shortlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize. His latest book is A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane.

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