In a statement on the mix-up, Zaidi said: “It is humiliating to have written a piece in the very same issue about the gatekeepers of the book world, the power in giving diverse voices a platform and thanking the industry.
“Inclusion is not a box-ticking exercise. No amount of diversely themed editions of a magazine is going to dull the need for real and meaningful reform.
“Minorities are not window-dressing, which is, unfortunately, the distinct impression one is left with when a working culture fails to instill the importance of being able to tell the difference between someone who is South Asian and (a very talented) person who is Latinx.”