Taran N Khan’s Shadow City — A Woman Walks Kabul, an intimate portrait of the city
I spoke with Taran N Khan, who has written a book titled Shadow City. The interview appeared in Sakal Times Ambika Shaligram Published on : 07 Mar, 2020 , 9:54 pm Walking in Kabul is like looking through the kaleidoscope... and as journalist Taran N Khan makes her way through the city’s bazaars, squares, library, bookshop, graveyards, university, and archaeological site, wedding halls, we get intimate with each new image of Kabul. An image which is far removed from the pictures that we co njure up from reading the headlines of a city and a country (Afghanistan) that has seen war, destruction and loss. Khan’s book, Shadow City — A Woman Walks Kabul, published by Penguin Random House India, doesn’t sidestep from talking about war, Taliban, ISAF and the NATO, but the journalist in her takes the backseat, and the storyteller in her steps up, in ways which empathises with the people and their joys and sorrows and the yen to live. We get to meet the people who stayed in touch with their k