Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee
A 288-page issue to mark India’s 50th year of independence. Fiction by Anita Desai, Amit Chaudhuri, Arundhati Roy, R.K. Narayan; memoirs by Mark Tully, Urvashi Butalia, and Nirad Chaudhuri; reportage by Edward Hoagland, James Buchan, and Suketu Mehta; a gallery of memories from 1947; and public and private India photographed by Dayanita Singh and Sebastião Salgado.
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In this issue
Ian Jack: Introduction
Urvashi Butalia: Blood
Various contributors: Freedom
Edward Hoagland: Wild Things
James Buchan: Kashmir
Anita Desai: Five Hours to Simla
Suketu Mehta: Mumbai
R. K. Narayan: Kabir Street
Mark Tully: My Father’s Raj
Ved Mehta: Coming Down
Trevor Fishlock: After Gandhi
William Dalrymple: Caste Wars
Viramma: Pariah
V. S. Naipaul: Notebooks
Nirad Chaudhuri: My Hundredth Year
Phillip Knightley: An Accidental Spy
Dayanita Singh: Mother India
Amit Chaudhuri: Waking
Vikram Seth: Sampāti
Michael Ondaatje: What we lost
Jan Morris: Clive’s Castle
