Annie Zaidi writes across multiple genres, including fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry. Her published work includes The Comeback, Bread, Cement, Cactus: a Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation, City of Incident, Prelude to a Riot, and Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales
Every once in a while, along comes a story that shakes our self-assurance, and forces us to reconsider humanity. If fantasy and science fiction offer alternative visions for humanity, they also warn of the pitfalls of going in the opposite direction.
All this book needed was to be treated like a book in its own right, out of the column straitjacket
The notion of privacy is rapidly losing out to data mining
The year 1995 summoned up visions of a spring for Indian writing in English. But charges of elitism, of not sufficiently ‘belonging’, have never ebbed. A contemporary writer responds:
Breathless and frightened, and not even the touch of a hand on your forehead. Not even if you die...that last touch is abolished. Strangers might carry your bier and lower you into the grave, or onto the pyre.
Capital punishment for rape leaves me more scared than before -- for self and society -- writes poet-playwright Annie Zaidi, after the Nirbhaya hanging.
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