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Jeet Thayil
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‘How to Be a Leaf’: A poem by Jeet Thayil
‘Worship women and trees.’
Jeet Thayil
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‘My kind of ideas are practical ideas. There is nothing ideological about them’: Poet Vijay Seshadri
‘In the macroscopic world of poetry, poets are still dealing with the issue of vocalisation and whether they like it not, they are committed to natural speech.’
Jeet Thayil & John Wilkinson
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World Poetry Day: A new anthology of Indian poets writing in English is on its way
‘The book developed an end-of-the-world climate all its own,’ writes editor Jeet Thayil in his preface to ‘The Penguin Book of Indian Poets’.
Jeet Thayil
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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‘No educated person will vote for the BJP. What is the point of studying if we do not get jobs?’
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What did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar think about Dalits praying in temples and eating with Brahmins?
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Mid-life running works wonders for the knees, hips and spine
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With ‘Low’, Jeet Thayil returns to novelising the most searing experiences in his own life
An excerpt from the poet and writer’s third novel.
Jeet Thayil
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Jeet Thayil’s new novel is fiction on the life of a painter-poet. Here, he paints Indira Gandhi
The Man Booker shortlisted writer’s second novel has just been published.
Jeet Thayil
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'Malayalam’s ghazal': A poem by Jeet Thayil
'He says there’s no word for “despair” in Malayalam.'
Jeet Thayil
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming