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Airplane Mode: A Passive-Aggressive History of travel
Author: Shahnaz Habib
Publisher: Westland Books
Pages: 277
Price: Rs 699
On her travels to Konya in central Turkey, a carpet seller she has befriended asks Shahnaz Habib where she’s from. When she replies, “Hindistan”, the Turkish word for India, he immediately guesses that she doesn’t live there. How so? Because she’s travelling around. “Only Americans, British, Australians, and Japanese travel,” he says.
His astute observation takes her back to her first year in graduate school, to a job talk by a travel videographer looking to hire a crew for documentaries. Among other things, his presentation delves
