Tuesday, September 30, 2008

News at Eleven: [Jeet] Thayil does not restrict himself

to Indian nationals alone, but throws open his net to include all those born in India, or to Indian parents or grandparents, and now living in Denmark, France, China, Canada, Australia, the US and UK. "Indian poetry, wherever its writers are based, should really be seen as one body of work," Thayil argues in his preface, which he aptly titles, "One Language, Separated by the Sea".

In the process, Thayil brings to light some really exciting voices among this, mostly younger, lot.

from Business Standard: Revisiting 'Indian' poetry

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