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 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.’”

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

What Reena really wanted to know was why – in a night club, for example – do we chose, always and above all, that nothing happens?”

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