The Nobel laureate rails against failed revolutionaries in India and then, perhaps in the interest of fairness, strikes a few blows at England's working class.
One day in June, the Toronto Globe and Mail carried a news photograph showing a man, naked to the waist, surrounded by police officers. The man´s hands are handcuffed
South African Indians at least have a history, Indians in America do not have that, and so they invest in myths of mystical greatness and update them with profiles of
In Vidia's India: A Million Mutinies Now there is little landscape and hardly any weather. There is no smell, no heat or dust, no sweating men, no lisping
It was Trinidad-born VS. Naipaul who had famously described the India he visited as "an area of darkness". And, when his younger brother, novelist Shiva Naipaul, travelled to
"Till now poems have been written only
about going to jail,
while for any right-thinking person
no poems have been born
