Nonfiction | July 19, 2023
My Editor and the City
My Editor and the City
Anuradha Kumar
I once worked for a magazine that was on the sixth floor of a building near the Victoria Terminus station. The city was then still Bombay, and the station too had its old name, after the British queen who ruled during the time it was built. Soon it would be renamed after the legendary king, whose name now appears on everything of importance in the city. The magazine had been in this building for many years. It moved only recently to a new office in the central part of the city, where once the textiles mills were.
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