Ecological catastrophe in southern India. This film accompanies a report by Akash Kapur in Granta 101.
Photograph by Praveen
Ecological catastrophe in southern India. This film accompanies a report by Akash Kapur in Granta 101.
Photograph by Praveen
‘She must have loved gold seeing that everything in the penthouse was gold. We didn’t sit. Fear didn’t let us see where to sit.’ A story by Adachioma Ezeano.
‘I had also, a week earlier, been fired for trying to sleep with my boss’s husband. I got the idea from a book, or maybe every book.’ A story by Emily Adrian.
‘The Mitsubishi conglomerate controls a forty per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna; they are freezing and hoarding huge stocks of the fish every year.’ Katherine Rundell on extinction speculation.
‘Two roof tiles are missing to the rear: the kiss of death. Without repair, ruination is now inevitable. Until then, this is my best hope of shelter.’ Cal Flyn visits the island of Swona in northern Scotland.
‘I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures. / For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’ A poem by Ocean Vuong.
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.
More about the author →‘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.‘
‘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.’
‘I now see Melting Rainbows as a self-referential project to parse the universe which we inhabit.’
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