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The Age of Dissolution
Bidisha Banerjee

A digital project, part of Bad Actors
  • Bidisha Banerjee is based in San Francisco and Kolkata. She is working on a book about the life, death, and afterlives of the Ganga.
“The Age of Dissolution” was commissioned by Triple Canopy as part of its Immaterial Literature project area, supported in part by the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

All photos AP/Reuters.
Tags: Essay, History, Mythology
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