Jeet Thayil Q & As

       In India they're apparently pretty excited about Narcopolis-author Jeet Thayil getting his book shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, so now one finds a number of articles and interviews with him; see, for example the Q & A with Subhash K. Jha, My father had predicted a Booker nomination: Jeet Thayil, in the Times of India, and the Q & A with Deepanjana Pal at DNA, Opium for the literary masses.
       Of interest: apparently a heroin habit isn't a career-killer for authors -- both Thayil and Will Self (whose Umbrella is also shortlisted for the Man Booker this year) apparently had one.
       And: the working title of Thayil's next novel is ... The Book of Chocolate Saints.