V. S. Naipaul
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I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me.
Responding to a comment that the blog pertains to South Asians, the author asks what that means for each reader, weighs Naipaul’s view of Muslim-background people shorn of Indian roots,…
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Guest Post: India, a wounded civilization
Rohit Pradhan argues that the Bangalore Karachi Bakery episode, where a mob forced it to cover the Karachi name, reveals India’s psychological wounds. He blames a nihilistic nationalism that the…
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VS Naipaul (and Prime Minister Imran Khan)..
Back from a move, the author offers quick notes on V. S. Naipaul’s death, defending him against the charge of white supremacy as a writer who tried to see things…
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V. S. Naipaul has died
A short tribute saying the author has read only Naipaul’s nonfiction, which distilled familiar intuitions into economical prose, though he later rejected much of its analysis, and leaving the fiction…
