: Annie Zaidi’s new novel weaves the narratives of unnamed people into a disturbing urban tapestry #IndiaNEWS When first asked what it is about pre-pandemic life that I miss most, I found “public

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Annie Zaidi’s new novel weaves the narratives of unnamed people into a disturbing urban tapestry #IndiaNEWS
When first asked what it is about pre-pandemic life that I miss most, I found “public transport� roll off the tip of my tongue as though the words had been impatiently waiting there. It wasn’t just me – I found this yearning for metros and trains echoed online in numerous tweets and captions. It is one of those rare shared spaces that makes you cognisant of the volume of people that shares the city with you. When I finished City of Incident by Annie Zaidi I found she had dedicated the first paragraph of her acknowledgements page to public transport systems – “Cities are organisms of which trains, buses and ferries are the veins and arteries and nerves. I know what I know about any large city only because of affordable, often subsidised, public transport.� I spend much of my time in public transport with my earphones plugged in and my music muted in order to eavesdrop on conversations, and the twelve stories in “City of Incident� seemed like they would feed that craving of mine. To begin with, this was also my apprehension – that the brevity of the stories would provide nothing more than a quick dip in and out of the...Read more

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