From Director to Burnout to Bestselling Novelist – Tim van Es Discusses the Chaiwallah (Part #2/2)

by Nathan James Thomas

In the first part of our conversation with Tim van Es, he talked about how a travel-fueled corporate life was highly successful on the surface, yet led him to the point of a significant (and almost fatal) breakdown.

In part #2, we discuss what came out of the rubble of his former life: The Amazon bestselling novel that paints sensitive portraits of local lives in Mumbai: The Chaiwallah.

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