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The changing nature of grief | Review of Jeet Thayil’s new poetry collection, ‘I’ll Have It Here’
2 weeks, 3 days ago

The changing nature of grief | Review of Jeet Thayil’s new poetry collection, ‘I’ll Have It Here’

The Hindu  

Jeet Thayil’s necro-poems in These Errors are Correct that lament the premature passing of his wife Shakti Bhatt, and which later went on to win the Sahitya Akademi Award, introduced us to a poet nursing his intimate wounds. Considerably so, as, his ardent followers would agree, the despondent veil of not being able to ‘equal or improve on your last …

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Jeet Thayil: Had I not been a poet, I’d have been a mess
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Jeet Thayil: Had I not been a poet, I’d have been a mess

New Indian Express  

"I was convinced there had been a break-up between poetry and me. For the reader could you suggest some sort of pick – the five poems that could get the reader to start a conversation with the book. It isn't chronological: I placed the poems in a way that narrows the book and opens it up at the same time. …

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New on Shelves: Murakami’s latest novel, Mohinder Amarnath’s biography and more
1 month ago

New on Shelves: Murakami’s latest novel, Mohinder Amarnath’s biography and more

Live Mint  

A new novel by Haruki Murakami is headline material in the world of literary fiction—so what if it sounds like a mishmash of his earlier books? The City and its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami, Penguin Random House, 464 pages, ₹1,399 This new collection of poems by Jeet Thayil marks the writer’s return from his self-avowed exile from poetry, declared …

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Prayaag Akbar’s new novel, Mother India, plunges into pressing, contemporary matters
3 months, 1 week ago

Prayaag Akbar’s new novel, Mother India, plunges into pressing, contemporary matters

The Hindu  

Prayaag Akbar remembers reading about an actress whose photograph was photoshopped and used, without her knowledge, on an online platform. “She was completely clueless about it until the media started reporting it,” says the Goa-based writer, who was in Bengaluru to launch his latest novel, Mother India. “ Second novel Mother India,which unfurls in alternating narratives, diving in and out …

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Toll imposed on users at Chellanam fish landing centre withdrawn
9 months, 1 week ago

Toll imposed on users at Chellanam fish landing centre withdrawn

The Hindu  

The toll imposed on fishermen and fishing boats using the Chellanam fish landing centre has been withdrawn following talks between officials of Harbour Engineering and Fisheries departments and representatives of fishermen’s unions in the presence of K.J. Fishermen had launched an indefinite relay hunger strike earlier this week in front of the fish landing centre demanding the withdrawal of toll …

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Poets Jeet Thayil, Tishani Doshi on Indian contemporary poetry and the idea of community
1 year, 9 months ago

Poets Jeet Thayil, Tishani Doshi on Indian contemporary poetry and the idea of community

The Hindu  

The familiar darkness and sparkle of flamboyant chandeliers at The Park’s Pasha is reminiscent of early millennial clubbing and ‘90s classics; It is perhaps the most unlikely meeting place for a venerated group of Indian contemporary poets. Jeet Thayil says with a chuckle, “When people drink, they tend to like poetry more.” The group, which is minutes away from a …

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Book Review | Grief in verse, portrayed arrestingly
2 years, 2 months ago

Book Review | Grief in verse, portrayed arrestingly

Deccan Chronicle  

“Please take me out to a field at dawn, give me a last cigarette, blindfold me, and dispatch me with a merciful shot to the head. This is a year of poetry for him — and surely an interesting one — as his 2012 Sahitya Akademi awarded poetry collection, These Errors Are Correct, has been brought out by Penguin Random …

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This new book of Indian poetry is a collector’s item
2 years, 7 months ago

This new book of Indian poetry is a collector’s item

Live Mint  

For over two decades, Jeet Thayil has been compiling the definitive anthology of Indian poetry in English. Madhu Kapparath’s black and white images of poets like Vikram Seth, Dom Moraes, Arun Kolatkar and Thayil himself enhance the book’s value as a physical artefact and collector’s item. In a phone interview, Thayil speaks about the anthology’s making, some of the younger …

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Excerpt: The Penguin Book of Indian Poets edited by Jeet Thayil
2 years, 7 months ago

Excerpt: The Penguin Book of Indian Poets edited by Jeet Thayil

Hindustan Times  

Dear brown ugly moth, I don’t know whether you are a butterfly or not. You’ve been beside my bed since last night like an old timey pastor administering my last rites. I’ve had guests in my room before, don’t get me wrong, but none made it till breakfast; and the window has been open for a while, besides, look outside! …

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