The Power Plant: Fragments in Time

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The desire for modernity towards an equitable future through technological means lies in ruins. Climate change and extinctions have become the debris of progress. This new book, a diary and photo document of a closed coal-fired power plant, is a testimony to a promise unfulfilled. The power plant was commissioned in the late-1950s in a newly independent India, following other mega technological projects. The culprit–– Coal, however, was also where childhood memories lay, in smoke-filled chullas and local coal depots. Intertwined experiences blur the boundaries of a polemic other, and become an inquiry into a complex, entangled life. The power plant resonated with the “sounds of another stillness”.