Book Launch

Night in Delhi

2025-02-13 21:36:06

Ranbir Sidhu and Jeet Thayil

Night in Delhi

When

February 1, 2025    
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

“Nervy, daring, properly transgressive, Night in Delhi is Indian fiction remade, with nothing to prove and nothing to lose.” — Jeet Thayil

Join us for the launch of Ranbir Sidhu’s latest novel, Night in Delhi, followed by a discussion with poet Jeet Thayil. In a devastating portrait, Ranbir Sidhu’s Night in Delhi invites us into a city and its underworld where at any moment the ground might collapse beneath you

About the book-Night in Delhi

There are no good people here. And perhaps no truly evil ones. A small-time thief and hustler and his lover and pimp, who is a rising star in Delhi’s music scene. A lost American and acolyte of a so-called guru. A young woman who hopes to save herself by becoming a boss in one of India’s new mafias. And everyone floating in a world of shades of grey.


Ranbir Sidhu

Ranbir Sidhu is the author of six books, including Dark Star, Deep Singh Blue, and Good Indian Girls. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, his work has been featured in leading publications worldwide. Sidhu’s screenplay The Afterlife is in pre-production, set for filming in 2025.

Jeet Thayil

(Photo credit: Ninan Joseph)

Jeet Thayil is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He worked as a journalist for twenty-one years in Bombay, Bangalore, Hong Kong and New York City. In 2005 he began to write fiction.

The first instalment of his Bombay Trilogy, Narcopolis, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the DSC Prize, and became an unlikely bestseller. His book of poems These Errors are Correct won the Sahitya Akademi Award (India’s National Academy of Letters), and his musical collaborations include the
opera Babur in London. His essays, poetry and short fiction have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Granta, TLS, Esquire, The London Magazine, The Guardian and The Paris Review, among other venues. He is the editor of The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. Jeet Thayil’s latest collection of poetry is I’ll Have it Here, and his new novel, Melanin, is forthcoming.

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