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
‘I alone know a running stream
that is recovery partly and dim sweat
of a day-fever’
A poem by Rowan Evans.
‘Humour is a thread we hang onto. It punctures through the fog of guilt.’
Momtaza Mehri in conversation with Warsan Shire.
‘Something shifted in me that night. A small voice in my head said, maybe you can make a way for yourself as a poet here, too.’
Mary Jean Chan in conversation with Andrew McMillan.
‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’
An essay by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 159: What Do You See?
‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’
A poem by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While.
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.’
‘Fiction is like those amazing robots that build other robots.’
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