Rana Dasgupta
Rana Dasgupta’s novels include Tokyo Cancelled and Solo, winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His non-fiction book Capital won the 2017 Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage.
Rana Dasgupta on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Maruti 800
Rana Dasgupta
‘Like a tiny old woman surrounded by strapping grandsons, the Maruti 800 was in fact the progenitor of all that new, muscular, vehicular variety.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
Rana Dasgupta | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Rana Dasgupta
‘This is a literature of checkpoints and fences, and the improvised gaps through which desperate people pass.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
The Attacks in Mumbai
Rana Dasgupta
‘India is a garrulous place, and yet, during last week’s attacks in Mumbai, it became speechless.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 140
Notes on a Suicide
Rana Dasgupta
‘The problem was that, for the most part, it did not matter how widely broadcast your discontent was: no one cared.’
Rana Dasgupta on digital celebrity and a suicide in the banlieues of Paris.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 107
Capital Gains
Rana Dasgupta
‘The society that has emerged in post-liberalization India is one consumed both by euphoria and dread.’