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I’ve been reading Brian Dillon’s “Suppose A Sentence” and wondering why we write the way we write. In 27 essays, Dillon vivisects 27 sentences, beginni…
Samanth Subramanian
Apr 14Share
In the Guardian Long Read last week, I wrote about a skirmish at Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, between the club’s longtime members and its new owner, …
Samanth Subramanian
Mar 11Share
In a multi-storied issue a few months ago, I ventured that perhaps one purpose of this newsletter might be to send you some of my older writing that is…
Samanth Subramanian
Feb 8Share
In December, for an end-of-year package put together by Rest of World, I wrote about a woman who was raped and killed in the fields in Hathras, a distr…
Samanth Subramanian
Jan 8Share
Earlier this year, an editor from Granta asked if I could contribute to their Winter 2020 issue, titled “Second Nature.” She knew what she wanted: a pi…
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Dec 7, 2020Share
I am sure I am not alone in having wondered again and again over the past decade, over the tenures of various governments in India, the UK and the US: …
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Nov 2, 2020Share
In September, after months and months, I took an international flight again: London to Florence, two-hours-and-a-bit, the kind of low-cost hop that so …
Samanth Subramanian
Oct 7, 2020Share
A couple of weeks ago, The Economist’s feature-magazine sister 1843 published my profile of Jimmy Anderson, the most successful fast bowler in the hist…
Samanth Subramanian
Sep 11, 2020Share
I continue to tinker with the idea behind this newsletter. What should it do? At some point, I will want it to contain original writing—writing that is…
Samanth Subramanian
Aug 4, 2020Share
On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine published a monster of a piece I’d reported ten months ago, in Colombo: on two wealthy brothers, from a moderate…
Samanth Subramanian
Jul 7, 2020Share
I wrote a column for Politico Europe about arsonists trying to burn down 5G towers across Europe, and compared it to the practice of burning witches—wh…
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Jun 5, 2020Share
In reporting a Guardian Long Read about face masks, I ran into a problem that, I can only assume, will become more and more common for those of us forc…
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May 4, 2020Share
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