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In his words: "I am just a professional writer, which means I don't do blogs and try and get money for whatever I write."

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018)

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Sir Vidia and his A team

Vidia regarded the whole doctrine of the equality of human beings in intellect, character and culture as foolishness.

25 Aug 2018 12:10 AM IST

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'Burqa jokes' become a pawn in the great game of 'Politopoly'

What could be characterised, absorbed and dismissed as prankish provocation of an idiosyncratic satirist, was not in...

18 Aug 2018 4:18 AM IST

On the way home we discussed the fact that there was a Parsi graveyard at all. Brits would not have looked kindly on Parsis setting up a Tower of Silence where vultures could eat the corpses of their dead.

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A grave Sunday visit

Of course, the surnames on the Parsi graves are familiar.

14 Aug 2018 1:38 AM IST

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Farewell Sir Vidia! Always politically incorrect

VS Naipaul first book on India was, as he said to me, the product of disillusion.

13 Aug 2018 12:35 AM IST

Britains Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (Photo: AP)

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UK Labour must tackle its anti-Semitism

Several Muslim leaders objected and complained to Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, to take action.

4 Aug 2018 2:21 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)

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Crime, religion can't be clubbed

The pretence for this outrage was that some of these individuals had not subsequently registered their British...

28 July 2018 2:44 AM IST

The fact that Manchester Universitys student diversity officer and liberation and access officer initiate a move to erase If from their sight, will not result in Kiplings works disappearing from the history of literature. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

The students are absolutely within their rights to airbrush poems they don't want to see on the walls of what is their...

21 July 2018 12:33 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on Thursday, June 22, 2017. (Photo: AP)

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Chequers deal: A dead duck for UK?

The Brexitiers won by a narrow margin of 52 to 48 per cent of vote.

14 July 2018 12:47 AM IST

Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals in a covert raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011. (Photo: AFP)

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Of false premises & false promises

The Quran says martyrs going to heaven will get hur , and the word was taken by early commentators to mean virgins ,...

7 July 2018 12:16 AM IST

As the girl resisted the rape attempt, the accused poured kerosene on her and set her ablaze. He fled the spot after the incident. (Photo: Representational)

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Protect women just like you protect cows!

It should be obvious on the evidence of the last few years that merely passing new laws, or including harsher...

30 Jun 2018 5:33 AM IST

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Don't be taken in by fake news

Fake history in the service of some petty cause is easily exposed.

23 Jun 2018 5:58 AM IST

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Persians & the Islamic state of Iran

If there was a survey today in Iran, 80 per cent of people would say they want to follow the Zardushti religion.

16 Jun 2018 6:14 AM IST