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Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘The pieces in this issue of Granta are all concerned, in one way or another, with the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding.’
Pyre
Amitava Kumar
‘In more ways than one, the rituals of death had reminded me that I was an outsider.’
After Zero Hour
Janine di Giovanni
‘It seemed there was a little piece of Iraqi earth inside me that refused to let me go.’
Fatima Bhutto | My Other Thing
Fatima Bhutto
‘If you happen to be friends with one of the world’s most fearsome food critics, don’t cook for him.’
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.’
The Ghost in the Kimono
Raghu Karnad
Deep in the dense volume of Delhi’s history Raghu Kardad investigates ‘the remarkable, untold story of the Japanese in the Old Fort’.
