Today the political parties and the mass media can say things, reckless things, which they perhaps hesitated from saying before 1992.
25 Nov 2018 12:07 AM
Vidia regarded the whole doctrine of the equality of human beings in intellect, character and culture as foolishness.
25 Aug 2018 12:10 AM
Naipaul was disliked by almost everyone in India who had read his book (not many have) or were familiar with what he said because of media reports.
19 Aug 2018 1:15 AM
What could be characterised, absorbed and dismissed as prankish provocation of an idiosyncratic satirist, was not in Johnson’s case.
18 Aug 2018 4:18 AM
The iconic writer’s career was also marked with controversies and skirmishes with his counterparts.
17 Aug 2018 12:22 AM
That dark ink which flowed in his veins sprung from the sad, inescapable whiteness of the universe, the sad, sad fixities of human nature.
15 Aug 2018 2:36 AM
Naipaul’s ardour for innovation became apparent when he wrote that “things are happening” in India.
14 Aug 2018 12:15 AM
Naipaul, known for his critical commentary on colonialism, idealism, religion and politics, died at the age of 85, his family said early on Sunday.
13 Aug 2018 6:20 AM
Hailed as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Naipaul evoked immense admiration, and criticism.
13 Aug 2018 6:10 AM
The Nobel Prize and the Booker winner’s oeuvre included over 30 works including the famous A House for Mr Biswas (published in 1961).
13 Aug 2018 6:04 AM
President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled his demise and said it was a major loss for the world of literature.
13 Aug 2018 4:14 AM
VS Naipaul first book on India was, as he said to me, the product of disillusion.
13 Aug 2018 12:35 AM