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The Disappearing Beach

Akash Kapur

Akash Kapur on ecological catastrophe in southern India.

Ecological catastrophe in southern India. This film accompanies a report by Akash Kapur in Granta 101.

 

 

Photograph by Praveen

In Conversation
The Online Edition
9th April 2008
In Conversation
The Online Edition
9th April 2008

Akash Kapur

Akash Kapur’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the Economist and the New York Times Book Review. He is working on a book about Indian modernity, to be published by Riverhead in 2009.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 101

Letter From Pondicherry, India

Akash Kapur

‘When I was growing up in Pondicherry, a former French colony on the south-east coast of India, I would go with my family each Sunday to the beach.‘

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Art & Photography | Issue 129

Data Recovery

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‘The viewer has to pour their own unconscious into interpreting these images, make them their own, allow themselves to be encouraged by the existence of a void.’

Art & Photography | Issue 127

Rainbow

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‘I now see Melting Rainbows as a self-referential project to parse the universe which we inhabit.’

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Primal Mountain

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‘In March 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred.’

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Troubadour

Edward Salem

‘There were always too many white activists and upper-class European NGO workers, foreign queers and queer adjacents who were there for the anecdote, hoping to bed a native before their visa ended.’

Fiction by Edward Salem.

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