Nothing Is Impossible Out Here: a guide to the seven exchanges
The first handbook page of Anjali Arora’s 2001 satire places official-sounding requests beside compromising replies. These are fictional scenes within the work.
The seven exchanges
- A national award: recognition is justified by personal service to a minister.
- A broker’s losses: a proposed bank advance bypasses restrictions while the decision-maker anticipates a private benefit.
- Post-earthquake housing: a supplier seeks a roofing order and dismisses the heat its occupants would endure.
- An exhibition: an artist is told to cultivate powerful connections.
- Official paperwork: hospitality is presented as the way to obtain attention.
- A criminal charge: promised intervention is tied to political accommodation.
- Advice to a child: success is associated with obedience to power and a respectable public appearance.
Read the two layers
The original instructions use pointer entry and exit to show and hide text. Open the 27 December 2001 handbook capture for its dialogue, visual arrangement and surviving controls. This accessible scene list paraphrases the situations; it does not present accusations about real named people or reproduce the original dialogue.
Continue with the close reading of the award, housing and exhibition scenes.
Source and access
First handbook page, captured 27 December 2001. This record uses new wording. The linked historical page and its artwork remain with the external archive; their original layout, scripts and images are not republished here.