"Trying to compete in the economy of attention from the field of contemporary art is a naive goal in the twenty-first century."

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

In his photographs and texts, ­Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

The key to survival will lay in female hands.