Found on a bookshelf: Sthalathe Pradhana Divyan, a novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, 2nd Edition, April 1956, published by Sahithya Pravarthaka, National Bookstall, Kottayam. Price: 1 rupee. Signed to my father TJS George, who would have been 98 today.
Cities, families, memory, each shapes you in a different way.
In this episode, Jeet Thayil reflects on a life shaped by movement, across cities, time, and forms of writing. From the restless, addictive energy of urban life in Narcopolis to the deeply personal terrain of The Elsewhereans, this is a conversation about evolution.
A deeply personal conversation about what writing becomes over time.
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What stays with a writer after a book is done?
In this episode, Jeet Thayil revisits Narcopolis—a book he once felt distant from—and speaks about returning to it with new eyes.
He also opens up about The Elsewhereans, a work that turns inward, towards family, memory, and loss.
From immersion to reflection, from distance to intimacy, this is a conversation about loss, time, and what remains.
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The poems in My Dead Flowers by @bukuagain are rivers; they meander, change course, are a swirl of eddies and back-eddies. They snake through the streets of Paris, New York City, Calcutta. And they sing of love - of its unruliness; its faltering ways; of its tenacious hold over memory.
Thayil Editions Number Two by @thayilesque is an invocation of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. But its preoccupations have less to do with good and evil, decadence and death, than with coming out alive.
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It was an evening of twisted love poetry, all bathed in Idoru Blue.
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[ poetry reading, valentine’s day, bars of bombay, mumbai nightlife, best of bandra, sake, cocktails, vinyl ]
An evening of twisted love poems in Idoru Blue with readings from author and poet Jeet Thayil, and friends.
Ending, appropriately, with an intimate listening session of Blue Valentine by Tom Waits.
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[ bars of bombay, mumbai nightlife, best of bandra, valentine’s day, poetry reading, cocktails, sake, tom waits, vinyl ]
Poet and novelist Jeet Thayil at the 6th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, moving through artworks of Birender Yadav (Only the Earth Knows Their Labour), Dhiraj Rabha (The Quiet Weight of Shadows), Panjeri Artists’ Union, RB Shajith (Wiping Out), Biraaj Dodiya (DOOM ORGAN), and visiting the Biennale Shop at Aspinwall House, Fort Kochi.
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