A Note on the Series;
On Failing Mission Statement;
Suicide as a Sort of Failure by Claney Martin;
Description of a Poet's Failure by Ranai Das;
Learning to Sing by Lydia Davis;
One Door Closes, Another Door Shuts: Some Reflections on Failure by Tiffany Atkinson;
Some Spontaneous Reflections on Failure by Anurag Kashyap;
The Intimacy of Failing by Amit Chaudhuri;
Failure: A User's Manual by Sunetra Gupta;
Failing Light by Sumana Roy;
Failing and Falling by Michel C;
Notes on the Contributors.

A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS THAT DEAL WITH VARIOUS ASPECTS OF FAILURE IN CREATIVE ENDEAVOUR AND OUTPUT. Various conceptions of form have, across cultures, embodied the liberations of failing: synecdoche; the image; metaphor—all these arise from a preferred inability to represent fully.
The essays in this collection by novelists, academics and film-makers, including Sunetra Gupta, Sumana Roy, Michel Chaouli and Anurag Kashyap, ask readers to account for the attractions specific to failing; for why, and how, it awakens our desire; why it is taboo today in a way quite different from the era before the market; and to reassess this history.