"'Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles' is taken from a sign I found outside a hostel in Lijiang, China, a beautiful city in the Yunnan province. It was a sign with the English phrase, the number 2418 ...
Jeet Thayil is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. His new collection of poems is 'I’ll have it here' (This article appeared in Outlook’s Valentine’s Day 2025 special issue on love and ...