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Rana Dasgupta

Rana Dasgupta is the author of two novels and a non-fiction portrait of twenty-first-century Delhi. His next book, After Nations, will appear in 2019

April 2018

  • demise of Nation States illustration: a melting world map

    The long read
    The demise of the nation state

    The long read: After decades of globalisation, our political system has become obsolete – and spasms of resurgent nationalism are a sign of its irreversible decline

September 2017

  • A train starts at the Egly station, south of Paris

    The Audio Long Read
    The first social media suicide – podcast

    In May of last year, a teenager in a dreary suburb of Paris live-streamed her own suicide – and acquired a morbid kind of digital celebrity

August 2017

  • Railtracks seen from above

    The long read
    The first social media suicide

    The long read: In May of last year, a teenager in a dreary suburb of Paris live-streamed her own suicide – and acquired a morbid kind of digital celebrity.

May 2016

  • Woman taking selfie in front of Eiffel Tower

    Posting photos online is not living. You are producing your own obituary

    Rana Dasgupta
    As you point your phone at everything from Notre Dame to a slice of chocolate cake, remember these images will take on significance only after you have gone
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