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
‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
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.’
‘David R. Godine is a respected, adventurous, outspoken publisher and a soi-disant cultural elitist.’
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