{"id":5833,"date":"2019-08-06T01:13:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/aug\/05\/sohrab-hura-images-of-a-violent-new-india-nationalism-the-coast"},"modified":"2019-08-06T01:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:13:28","slug":"fights-festivals-fear-sohrab-huras-angst-ridden-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5833","title":{"rendered":"Fights, festivals, fear: Sohrab Hura&#8217;s angst-ridden India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his photographs of out-of-control hedonism, punch-ups and blood-letting rituals, Hura captures a nation in the grip of an angry new nationalism <\/p>\n<p>S<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sohrabhura.com\/\">ohrab Hura<\/a>\u2019s photobook, The Coast, begins with a fantastical short story written by him. It features Madhu, a woman whose head has been stolen by her obsessive lover. She is awaiting the arrival of \u201can idiot of a photographer\u201d who wants to capture her and \u201call the wonderful and vicious things that happened along the Indian coastline\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The images that follow are indeed wonderful and vicious, almost hallucinatory in their intensity: lovers embrace, angry men come to blows, revellers are caught in closeup, eyes bloodshot, faces daubed with powdered paint, lips smeared with lipstick. Moments of violence are caught in the flashbulb\u2019s glare: a machete drips blood on a bare foot, a man holds a brick above another man he has pinned to the pavement, a woman stares in terror at something \u2013 or someone \u2013 just out of the frame.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/aug\/05\/sohrab-hura-images-of-a-violent-new-india-nationalism-the-coast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his photographs of out-of-control hedonism, punch-ups and blood-letting rituals, Hura captures a nation in the grip of an angry new nationalism Sohrab Hura\u2019s photobook, The Coast, begins with a fantastical short story written by him. It features M&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,91,511,71,516,62,238,92,371,552,235,550,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-books","category-culture","category-hinduism","category-india","category-media","category-photography","category-religion","category-social-exclusion","category-social-media","category-social-trends","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5835,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}