Granta comes out with special India issue

UK's popular magazine Granta has come out with a special issue on India featuring writings of the likes of Upamanyu Chatterjee, Amit Chaudhuri, Sam Miller and Neel Mukherjee among others as also a piece on 'love jihad'.
"India: Another Way of Seeing" is the second Granta issue devoted to India. The first was published in 1997 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of India's independence.
Every issue of the magazine, founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University and published four times a year since 1979, has been a mix of outstanding new fiction, reportage, memoir and photography from brightest emerging talents and finest authors.

The opening piece in this edition is Hari Kunzru's "Drone", in which he imagines an India where inequality has been taken to its extreme.
Aman Sethi explains 'love jihad', a term coined by some Hindu groups for alleged efforts to get non-Muslim girls convert to Islam through love affairs.
"Othello Sucks" is Upamanyu Chatterjee's witty take on those studying Shakespeare in India. "The Wrong Square" is an extract from a new novel of Neel Mukherjee, who was shortlisted for last year's Booker Prize.

Sam Miller's "Gandhi the Londoner" is about the early years of Mahatma Gandhi while Amitava Kumar's "Pyre" is a tribute to his mother who died last year.

There is some poetry also - "Blood Count" is a poem by Karthika Nair Shunaka; Tishani Doshi's "Rain at Three"; "Sanjay Nagar Blues" by Anjum Hasan and Vinod Kumar Shukla's "This year too in the plains" and "This colourful picture" translated from Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.
"Another Way of Seeing" is about Warli paintings of Maharashtra by Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad, with an introduction by Michael Collins. Journalist Katherine Boo, along with Vijay Gadge, Devo Kadam, Sudip Sengupta and Unnati Tripathi, comes up with a series of photo articles on Mumbai's slum Annawadi.
The other pieces in the edition are Amit Chaudhuri's "English Summer"; Deepti Kapoor's "A Double-Income Family"; Anjali Joseph's "Shoes"; Raghu Karnad's "The Ghost in the Kimono"; Arun Kolatkar's "Sticky Fingers"; "The Bachelor Father" by Kalpana Narayanan; Samanth Subramanian's Breach Candy and Vivek Shanbhag's "Ghachar Ghochar", translated from Kannada by Srinath Perur.