Train Stories

About the book

Photographs and notes from a Train Journey. From Delhi to Varanasi.

After a long hiatus due to the pandemic, the author returns to the holy city of Varanasi to perform the final ritual of a seven-year ‘Pilgrimage into the Silence’. But the world after COVID is no longer the same: will she still find what she once left everything behind for?

Thoughts and observations from along the way.

About the author

Soma Azadi lives and works as a writer and artist between Varanasi (India) and Seville (Spain). She is currently working on the second novel in a trilogy ‘About Becoming and Passing away.