Trickster city : writtings from the belly of the metropolis / Azra Tabassum … [et al.] ; translated by Shveta Sarda

Translated from Hindi

Arrival -- The Delhi liner / Jaanu Nagar -- Many rallies came and went / Azra Tabassum -- It made news / Lakhmi Chand Kohli -- He never camne again / Sunita Nishad -- Rehearsal / Rakesh Khairalia -- Rasool bhai, how come you're in Delhi? / Shamsher Ali -- A welcome to those who come / Jaanu Naga -- En Route -- The shape-shifter / Yashoda Singh -- His diaries / Kiran Verma / -- The moment of decision / Suraj Rai -- A party in Panipat / Azra Tabassum -- Stop, look... rest / Jaanu Nagar -- Facial / Neelofar -- Missed call / Lakhmi Chand Kohli -- The slaughterhouse / Arish Qureshi -- Repartee -- Daily hurts | Daily acceptances / Kulwinder Kaur | Rakesh Khairalia -- Whereabouts -- The house that remained the same / Lakhmi Chand Kohli -- Vanished in the smoke / Shamsher Ali -- His unnamed need / Lakhmi Chand Kohli -- The guarantor / Suraj Rai -- Tell me where you live / Lakhmi Chand Kohli -- Having seen it from close / Suraj Rai -- Eviction -- The last stanza of a poem -- Incognito -- The song player / Azra Tabassum -- Just like my brother / Shamsher Ali -- There is none who doesn't like her / Yashoda Singh -- In your name / Neelofar -- The night was dark then / Rakesh Khairalia -- Encounter -- My mother's dread / Neelofar -- The tenants / Yashoda Singh -- What's in this word evidence"? / Babli Rai -- Tea for my son / Lakhmi Chand Kohli -- Permission / Shamsher Ali -- An archive of desires / Babli Rai -- Please wait in line / Lakhmi Chand Kohli -- Frontier -- Its name is Ghevra -- Translator's note -- About the writers -- Acknowledgements

"Trickster City is an extraordinary composite of writings on Delhi by a group of young people who have, Over several years, Sustained among themselves and with others around them a relationship of conversing about the city.
This collection chronicles the loss of home and livelihood through urban eviction; encounters with the agencies of the state; love stories gone awry: the fragility of relationships; and the sustained effort to build life in anticipation of beauty and pleasure.
The writers draw from experiences, events and biographies, part fictive, part documentary, to inscribe an image of the city that is rarely available. There is a yearning in their writings for the expression of the poetic and allegorical alongside the harshness of everyday existence.
Trickster City is an aphoristic and playful meander in search of a new language that expresses the profound uncertainties and delicately realised joys of urban life."--Book jacket