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Jeet Thayil

  • ‘I don’t think you can dismiss mysticism as obfuscation’: Adil Jussawalla on writing a play at 18

    ‘I don’t think you can dismiss mysticism as obfuscation’: Adil Jussawalla on writing a play at 18

    Adil Jussawalla Thayil Editions
    · Aug 26, 2025 · 08:30 am
  • ‘The Elsewhereans’ by Jeet Thayil travels through timelines, ingeniously connects places and events

    ‘The Elsewhereans’ by Jeet Thayil travels through timelines, ingeniously connects places and events

    Saloni Sharma
    · Jul 26, 2025 · 08:30 am
  • Jeet Thayil’s new ‘documentary novel’: The restless lives of those shaped by separation across times

    Jeet Thayil’s new ‘documentary novel’: The restless lives of those shaped by separation across times

    Jeet Thayil
    · Jun 25, 2025 · 06:30 pm
  • ‘I always remember the streets, the stone’: Two poets write about cities around the world

    ‘I always remember the streets, the stone’: Two poets write about cities around the world

    Jeet Thayil John Kinsella
    · May 16, 2025 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘I’ll Have It Here’: Jeet Thayil blends the instinctive and incomprehensible in his new poems

    ‘I’ll Have It Here’: Jeet Thayil blends the instinctive and incomprehensible in his new poems

    Saurabh Sharma
    · Mar 01, 2025 · 05:00 pm
  • ‘To ride the river, to know desire’: Five poems from Jeet Thayil’s new book of poetry

    ‘To ride the river, to know desire’: Five poems from Jeet Thayil’s new book of poetry

    Jeet Thayil
    · Dec 16, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘My kind of ideas are practical ideas. There is nothing ideological about them’: Poet Vijay Seshadri

    ‘My kind of ideas are practical ideas. There is nothing ideological about them’: Poet Vijay Seshadri

    Jeet Thayil John Wilkinson
    · Apr 09, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • Fiction? Check. Cultural history? Check. Elegy? Check. Jeet Thayil’s new novel is utterly satisfying

    Fiction? Check. Cultural history? Check. Elegy? Check. Jeet Thayil’s new novel is utterly satisfying

    Vivek Menezes
    · Nov 09, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • A novel that proves why literature cannot be useful, and isn’t meant to be

    A novel that proves why literature cannot be useful, and isn’t meant to be

    Amrita Narayanan
    · Feb 28, 2016 · 11:30 am
  • Narcopolis

    Narcopolis

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 04, 2016 · 10:36 am