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Jeet Thayil est écrivain indien.

✵ 13. octobre 1959
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“It had people from all over the country and the world. The great thing about Bombay as a city was it was a magnet for anybody with talent, or ambition or hunger, or beauty, or intelligence.”

On the variety of characters portrayed in his Narcopolis.
Jeet Thayil on why 'Where are you from?' is a complicated question for all of us
Contexte: It had people from all over the country and the world. The great thing about Bombay as a city was it was a magnet for anybody with talent, or ambition or hunger, or beauty, or intelligence. If you had any of these things and you wanted to make something of yourself, you went to Bombay and the city would reward you. I think all of that changed in 1992, when the last big riots happened in Bombay between Hindus and Muslims. Now when I go back to the city and I look at it, I can see the kind of profound impact that those riots had, and how it's changed the character of the city, and in such a profound way that I don't think it will ever change back to what it was before '92.

“Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well known and it’s obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don’t separate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separate their human and dog natures.”

Source: An extract from Jeet Thayil's Booker-shortlisted Narcopolis http://www.welovethisbook.com/features/extract-narcopolis, 10 September 2012 The Bookseller Media

“it came pretty late In a sense it is good. It won’t get over my head.”

After winning the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature-2013
Mohammed Iqbal, in: Jeet Thayil wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature http://www.thehindu.com/books/jeet-thayil-wins-dsc-prize-for-south-asian-literature/article4348766.ece, The Hindu, 27 January 2013

“You may lose something, but you gain a double perspective, a double vision. Especially in terms of writing, or in terms of art, I think it's tremendously useful.”

On the intermingling of cultures
Jeet Thayil on why 'Where are you from?' is a complicated question for all of us

“Yet, this is a small price I have had to pay for seeking to uphold the freedom of speech and expression.”

On his facing a case filed against him along with three other authors for reading out portions of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses during last year’s lit fest,
Mohammed Iqbal, in: "Jeet Thayil wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature"

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