“I could feel my colour. I could feel racism…in the way people looked at you, and the way they talked to you. Now, though, because of the mixing of cultures, it seems like some kind of brilliant social experiment…In some ways it seems to me the city of the future.”

—  Jeet Thayil

In the cultural scene in London
Jeet Thayil on why 'Where are you from?' is a complicated question for all of us

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