A subway soul

Life of an underground passage

- Mayank Austen Soofi

Where is Noor? And where is his cat?

The elderly subway guard hasn't been seen for a long time in this underground passage. He had been its guard-cum-unofficial custodian for many years, always sitting silently on one side of the subway with the day's newspaper, next to a black-and-white cat. He in fact lived in the subway, and had a chair and a folding bed. He also occasionally administered a small stall of knick-knacks for subway passersby.