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He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with...

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Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well knownand it’s obvious. But they con...

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Narcopolis

The world is on fire time is a bomb.Ten thousand years are not enoughWhen so much remains to be done...

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Narcopolis

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

Isn't it incredible?, I said.There was nothing incredible about it, she said.I thought it was so bec...

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How will the ships navigatewithout stars? And then he remembered that the stars weredead, long dead,...

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Narcopolis

My religion is no way of knowing me.

Narcopolis

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Jeet Thayil

Poet

Born: 1959-10-13

Died: N/A

Jeet Thayil (born October 13, 1959) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is most famous as a poet and is the author of four collections. His first novel, Narcopolis, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, was also shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the Hindu Literary Prize.More