Yunusbhai had no choice that night. He was walking on an emptied out road with the weight of a second hand car tied to his legs, and there were more than two kilometers between him and safety In 2001, a calamitous earthquake struck Gujarat, killing thousands. A year later came one of the worst communal carnages the nation had witnessed since Partition. For Robin David, then an Assistant Editor with the Times of India, the two events engendered a tectonic shift in his own life.
The earthquake left deep cracks in his ancestral home, while the riots undermined all the certainties of life. Situated as his house was on the dividing line between two communities, he and his mother were forced to migrate to a new location, leaving behind an entire lifestyle. But making a new life in a society torn asunder by violence and mistrust was not going to be easy… Observant, understated and funny in an edgy way, City of Fear is a classic account of surviving in difficult times.
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