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Famished Eels
Mary Rokonadravu
‘After one hundred years, this is what I have: a daguerreotype of her in bridal finery; a few stories told and retold in plantations, kitchens, hospitals, airport lounges.’
Love Jihad
Aman Sethi
‘He said Love Jihad, or the practice of Muslims seducing Hindu girls with the aim of converting them to Islam, was an existential threat to India.’
Introduction: Possession
Sigrid Rausing
‘Possession takes many forms, and at the heart of it is death and dereliction, invasion and submission.’
The Fixer
Snigdha Poonam
‘In Indian media and advertising, young people are mainly being projected as vessels of breathless aspiration.’
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.’
Possession
Bella Pollen
‘The brain is a bureaucratic organ with an almost neurotic determination to balance its books. To account to the department of logic for terror, it calls on the office of imagination to conjure up a worthy vision.’
Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag
‘That single moment’s intensity hasn’t been matched in my life before or since. A woman who I didn’t know has chosen to accept me, in body and mind.’
To Recall, To Praise
Spencer Reece
‘What would follow for five years was one of my last relationships forged through letters.’
Mother’s House
Raja Shehadeh
‘It was her last service, last sacrifice, to a husband who required so much from her throughout their life together. But we could not succeed.’
