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PARADISE BECOMING LOST
‘There are developing countries and there are endangered species. The Republic of Kiribati is an endangered country’. This is how Julien Blanc-Gras’ book, ‘Paradise (Before Liquidation), begins. Lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, these nation-islands are bound to be engulfed by the rise of water level due to global warming. It so happens that one of them, Christmas Island (named so because it was discovered on Christmas day and nothing to do with Santa Claus) now enjoys a weekly, direct flight from Hawai’i. This has liberated Kiribati (its local name) from its isolation, but it is the climatic threat that has brought this whole nation out of its anonymity.