![]() ![]() I could hardly see anything out of the window in the darkness. Bad idea, given it was going to be boring to spend eight insomniac hours in an empty compartment. Before leaving, I drank four cups of coffee in the canteen chatting with the students. ![]() ![]() ![]() The railways had just started this new summer train and nobody knew about it. In most cases, I shared my compartment with talkative women, snoring men and wailing infants. When I was younger, I used to check the reservation chart stuck outside a train bogie to see all the female passengers near my seat (F-17 to F-25 is what I’d look for most). Yes, you see it in the movies, you hear about it from friends’ friends but it never happens to you. And two, it is not everyday you sit in an empty compartment and a young, pretty girl walks in. The night train ride from Kanpur to Delhi was the most memorable journey of my life. Welcome to one night call center, another witty, dark novel from the award-winning author of the national bestseller Five Point Someone.Īre you ready to take the Call? Prologue Excerpt She said it was the night they got a phone call. The girl said the story was about six people working in a a call center, set in one night. He hesitated, but asked what the story was about. However, she had a condition: that he make it into his second book. To pass the time, she offered to tell a story. In winter 2004, a writer met a young girl on a night train journey. ![]()
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