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CROWDS
In a recent essay, Olivia Laing recounts her battle with loneliness in New York. The writer would wander up Broadway or through the East River to get herself together. She says - anonymised by the multitude, I felt the burden of my sorrow slide off me. Liang’s experience is proof that crowds are more than a spatial construct and numerous humans. Also, crowds wield so much power over non-participants and spaces. It can be the trademark of a place, the outcome of a disaster or genocide, an army of followers or the protest tool it recently played in Nigeria- when youths amassed nationwide …