I spent years trying to be the black sheep of my family: Jeet Thayil on his deeply personal new book

India, June 20 -- It's a "conundrum of a novel", says Jeet Thayil, of his new book, The Elsewhereans. It begins with his father, the journalist TJS George, flying from Bombay to Cochin in the 1950s, ... Read More

Home run: Wknd sits down with Jeet Thayil to talk about his deeply personal new book

India, June 20 -- It's a "conundrum of a novel", says Jeet Thayil, of his new book, The Elsewhereans. It begins with his father, the journalist TJS George, flying from Bombay to Cochin in the 1950s, ... Read More

Master of disguise

India, June 15 -- In some ways, he is himself the stuff of science-fiction. For thousands of years, dating to ancient Greek and Welsh myths, then sci-fi and the worlds of HG Wells and Harry Potter, st... Read More

Master of disguise: Meet the inventor of a state-of-the-art invisibility cloak

India, June 13 -- In some ways, he is himself the stuff of science-fiction. For thousands of years, dating to ancient Greek and Welsh myths, then sci-fi and the worlds of HG Wells and Harry Potter, s... Read More

Gangs, exploding fingers, black markets: Check out the wild afterlife of trash

India, June 7 -- It is strange, and sinister, how garbage travels. An empty packet of chips from the US, a diaper discarded in Germany and a plastic bottle from the Netherlands have all ended up with... Read More

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