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Granta 130 - India: Another Way of Seeing (Paperback)
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Granta 130 - India: Another Way of Seeing (Paperback)
Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing
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For a long time - too long - the mirror that India held to its face
was made elsewhere. 'What writer about the country would you
recommend I read?' first-time travellers to India would ask, and in
the late twentieth century the answer was still Forster or Naipaul
or even the long-dead Kipling. In fiction, that changed with
Rushdie. Now it has changed in all kinds of non-fiction. Narrative
history, reportage, memoir, biography, the travel account: all have
their gifted exponents in a country perfecting its own frank gaze.
In this special issue, Aman Sethi's 'Love Jihad' gives us insight
into the riots, religious fractiousness, mob mentality and
political manipulations that have come to define day-to-day life in
Uttar Pradesh; Samanth Subramanian investigates the legacy of
postcolonialism among Mumbai's elite at one of the city's oldest
exclusive clubs; Raghu Karnad reveals the secret and terrible
history of a great Delhi monument; Amitava Kumar brings us with him
into a richly detailed world of grief at his mother's funeral pyre
on the banks of the Ganges; and Sam Miller follows Gandhi's
footsteps through Victorian London. Photographer Gauri Gill and
artist Rajesh Vangad take a fresh look at an Indian village and
embellish its present with its past, and Katherine Boo introduces
the photographs that helped her write Behind the Beautiful
Forevers. Hari Kunzru imagines an Indian future where inequality is
taken to an all-too-imaginable extreme; the 'English Summer' of
1985 is brought to life in an excerpt from Amit Chaudhuri's
Odysseus Abroad; and Anjali Joseph invites us into the mind of an
ageing cobbler as he splices together the loose strands of his
memories. Granta 130: India features more fiction by Upamanyu
Chatterjee, Deepti Kapoor, Kalpana Narayanan, Vivek Shanbhag, Neel
Mukherjee; a story by one of India's finest - and unduly neglected
- prose writers, Arun Kolatkar; and poetry by Tishani Doshi, Anjum
Hasan, Vinod Kumar Shukla and Karthika Nair.
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