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July 27, 2009
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REVIEW
The Man, The Myth And The Genius
Patrick French reveals enough devil in Naipaul, the autocrat and the alchemist
Sunil Khilnani on The World Is What It Is - The Authorised Biography Of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French
Magazine | Apr 21, 2008
 COVER STORY: BOOK EXTRACTS
PATRICK FRENCH
A Million Mutinies Within
No hagiography: 'He believed that a less than candid biography would be pointless, and his willingness to allow such a book to be published in his lifetime was at once an act of narcissism and humility.'
Extracts from The World Is What It Is by Patrick French
Magazine | Mar 31, 2008
COVER STORY: BOOK EXTRACTS
PATRICK FRENCH
Naipaul And India
How the area of darkness became a wounded civilisation where, eventually, were found a million mutinies
Magazine | Mar 31, 2008
COVER STORY: BOOK EXTRACTS
PATRICK FRENCH
Naipaul And His Three Women
'I knew Pat was dying and Margaret was finished.... It was not that I was trying to displace a dying woman and an old floozy': Nadira
Magazine | Mar 31, 2008
 REVIEW
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
An Aria Of Darkness
Naipaul's new book traverses old ground, his journey unto himself is but an ego trip, the sharp edge of his writing has turned bitter. Where's VS as we knew him?
William Dalrymple on A Writer`s People—Ways Of Seeing And Feeling by V.S. Naipaul
Magazine | Sep 24, 2007
 GOSSIP
Bibliofile
Sirji writes a new book and his bio is on its way — should Patrick French be worried? And KS asks if he is the only one who found Sham Lal unreadable.
Magazine | Apr 02, 2007
 FULL TEXT
AMIT CHAUDHURI
The Writer's World
The discussion of writing in V.S. Naipaul's work is more than a literary discussion on technique and sensibility; it is a description of writing as a habitation, constantly struggled over, constantly fought for, constantly in the process of being created, by a man without a home or history.
Web | Dec 01, 2004
 REJOINDER
FARRUKH DHONDY
Does Willy Get It Wilfully Wrong?
Or is it willy nilly? In any case, William Dalrymple's political project, his vaunted correction of V.S. Naipaul, is one within continuing Nehru 'secularism'. He is the Sonia Gandhi of Indian writing--an outsider, a generation too late, who makes desperate gestures to be accepted.
Web | Apr 28, 2004
 REJOINDER
TARUN VIJAY
The Erect Hindu Spine
William Dalrymple and his cartel are not the custodians of communal harmony
Magazine | Apr 05, 2004
COUNTERPOINT
FARRUKH DHONDY
What Sir Vidia Actually Said
The encounter at the exit got the headlines, but not what transpired at the meeting ... Did he still condemn the killings in Gujarat? Was it an endorsement of the BJP? Does he approve of the attempt to demolish the Babri Masjid? Can a person of foreign origin be Prime Minister of this country?
Web | Mar 08, 2004
 DISTORTED HISTORY
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
'Sir Vidia Gets It Badly Wrong'
William Dalrymple grants Naipaul his eminence, but challenges his jaundiced notions of Indian history
Magazine | Mar 15, 2004
 OPINION
AMAN KHANNA
Among The Believers
So what's the fuss about? It's not as if Arundhati Roy was invited to the RSS headquarters for a chintan baithak. And what did Sir Vidia say that was, coming from him, so spectacularly new or outrageous anyway?
Web | Feb 27, 2004
FINDINGS
BAKWAS BISWAS
Sir Vidia, The Poet
Patrick French hunts out Naipaul's 'lost' oeuvre -- four short stories, a radio play and the only poem he has ever written, broadcast from London to the West Indies just after his 18th birthday, Two Thirty A.M.
Web | Jan 21, 2004
NOBEL LECTURE
V.S. NAIPAUL
Two Worlds
Full text of the Nobel Lecture, December 7, 2001: "...as a child I had this sense of two worlds, the world outside that tall corrugated-iron gate, and the world at home - or, at any rate, the world of my grandmother's house..."
Web | Dec 10, 2001
 INTERVIEW
V.S. NAIPAUL
'I Shouldn't Try To Judge My Own Work'
Some of the questions put to Sir Vidia at his New York University reading:
Magazine | Nov 19, 2001
 REVIEW ESSAY
EDWARD SAID
An Intellectual Catastrophe
Somewhere along the way Naipaul, in my opinion, himself suffered a serious intellectual accident. His obsession with Islam caused him somehow to stop thinking, to become instead a kind of mental suicide compelled to repeat the same formula over and over.
Web | Oct 30, 2001
PERSPECTIVE
V.S. NAIPAUL
Literary Liberal: Naipaul And The Infies
To Naipaul, the world is suffused with 'Infies' of all stripes: inferior, common, low class, vulgar, uncultivated, deluded and destructive folks. Dark people in dark, lush places appear to be the worst offenders...
SHIRAZ DOSSA
Web | Oct 26, 2001
COMMENT
SUNDEEP DOUGAL
'Pissing From A Great Height'
Sir Vidia never fails to deliver. At the opening of Cheltenham literature festival, our newest Nobel laureate (sorry, he's British, actually) was heard saying that he believed he had helped to educate India's people...
Web | Oct 15, 2001
LITERATURE
V.S. NAIPAUL
Nobelity, At Last
Sir Vidia gets the accolade that perhaps he himself and the world had been expecting him to win
KHUSHWANT SINGH
Magazine | Oct 22, 2001
Naipaulspeak
Magazine | Oct 22, 2001
Finally
The Nobel Prize for Literature, the world's most prestigious and -- with a value of $ 943,000 -- richest literary award goes to Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Napaul. Also See: Interviews: 1998, 1999 and 2000 and an unexpectedly sharp obit of Nirad Babu written by our very own Sir Vidia, A Biting Pen
SUNDEEP DOUGAL
Web | Oct 11, 2001
REVIEW
Noble-Blooded Prose
In Half a Life, Naipaul travels the full gamut of miscegenation
Khushwant Singh on Half A Life by V.S. Naipaul
Magazine | Oct 15, 2001
CONVERSATION
V.S. NAIPAUL
'Hindu Revivalists Are Mimicking Islamic Fundamentalists'
V.S. Naipaul and Khushwant Singh in Conversation
BHAICHAND PATEL
Magazine | May 08, 2000
INTERVIEW
V.S. NAIPAUL
'Christianity Didn't Damage India Like Islam'
Widely regarded as the world's greatest living writer in English, Trinidad-born Sir Vidiadhar talks to Tarun J. Tejpal in what he claims is his "last"interview on India
TARUN J. TEJPAL
Magazine | Nov 15, 1999
PORTRAIT
NIRAD C. CHAUDHARY
A Biting Pen
IT was an unexpectedly sharp obit of Nirad Chaudhuri that V. S. Naipaul wrote for the Royal Society of Literature. A better part of that text:
V.S. NAIPAUL
Magazine | Oct 04, 1999
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