Train Stories

About the book

Train Stories is an intimate train journey from Delhi to Varanasi, the sacred city on the banks of the Ganges.

After a long interruption caused by the pandemic, the author returns to a place that deeply shaped her life and creative path. But the world has changed — and so has the way she sees it.

Between stations, landscapes and unexpected encounters, the journey becomes a space for reflection: on transformation, uncertainty, and the search for meaning.

Through photographs and thoughts written during the journey, the book invites the reader to slow down, observe, and question what remains when everything seems to have shifted.

About the Author

Soma Azadi is an artist and independent author interested in processes of personal and collective transformation.

Her work combines image and word as tools for inner exploration. After a period of retreat in Varanasi, India, she returned following the pandemic to reconnect with a place that profoundly influenced her creative path.

Soma Azadi lives and works between Seville (Spain) and Varanasi (India).

She is currently writing a trilogy titled On Becoming and Dissolving. The first novel of this trilogy will be published soon.

Train Stories emerges from this return and from the journey that made it possible.