… word ‘Russia’ is enough to make some Bengalis teary-eyed. They made me recite my poems at great length...
Jeet Thayil
By Palash Krishna Mehrotra Is any year a good year for books? Despite doomsday predictions, the book is alive and...
By Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé Let’s get down to brass tacks. Why do you write? To do otherwise would be to...
After the success of his debut novel Narcopolis (2012), poet Jeet Thayil has turned to songwriting. A part of the...
The Hindustan Times has published a list of the greatest Indian novels ever written. The paper says, "It might feel incomplete...
Reticent author Cyrus Mistry on Saturday beat off stiff competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of...
Author Jeet Thayil says he wrote Narcopolis as a way of reclaiming Bombay’s history Bombay. Mumbai. Bambai. City of secret...
Booker nominee Jeet Thayil, who has won the Sahitya Akademi and the DSC South Asian literature awards, leads the Indian...
Author Jeet Thayil has won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature-2013 for his debut novel Narcopolis based on the...
Indian author Jeet Thayil’s debut novel “Narcopolis” is among five other works shortlisted on Wednesday for the USD 30,000 Man...
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