Granta has published answers from various writers to the question — Is travel writing dead? I liked Karan Mahajan’s piece as it talks about blurring of nation state boundaries to create a new kind of space.
The second thing about modern travel writing: I am tired of the nation state. I grew up in India and moved to the US when I was seventeen; for the last fifteen years I have ping-ponged haplessly, crazily, self-destructively, between countries, unable to a choose one place over the other, always missing or mourning one when I should be enjoying where I was. In my mind, India and the US are two incommensurate universes – places where not only the air, water and food differ, but I, by association, change as well. I see them not as part of a continuum of humanity but as levels in a video game I must leap between – quantum states, almost.
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Granta — Karan Mahajan
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