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.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 151

Introduction

Rana Dasgupta

‘We cherish communion, exchange and intercourse, of course, but also distance, seclusion and defence. Talk of membranes, therefore, is never entirely literal.’

Art & Photography | Issue 151

Laxmi

Anita Khemka & Rana Dasgupta

‘Anita’s documentation of Laxmi developed into what has become a lifelong friendship bound by photography.’

Rana Dasgupta introduces the photography of Anita Khemka.

Art & Photography | Issue 151

Crimes of Space

Eyal Weizman & Rana Dasgupta

‘Architecture can be employed as a form of violence and violation.’

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.