TRAVEL AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Shahnaz Habib's Airplane Mode is asensitive dive into the complex and contentious activity that modern-day travel has devolved into

- Latha Anantharaman

It is a relief that Shahnaz Habib has put in writing the long-stewing anxieties of any thinking traveller. The excitement of travel, whether as a paid travel writer or a paying tourist, soon gives way to a creeping realisation that one is a cog in a massive industry that mostly produces construction and transport networks that tourists somehow deserve but residents of beautiful places never seem to get on their own merits.