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    On the road In the reportage sections, French recreates the experiences of foreign visitors

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  • The Bogeymen
    Since 1947, Jinnah has been cast as little more than a malevolent bogeyman who was determined to destroy the unity of India. Advani, being a bogeyman himself, knew that he was risking trouble when he returned to his birthplace to make conciliatory re
    Jun 16, 2005
    | Patrick French
  • 'I'm Not Here To Defend Naipaul's Politics'
    The celebrated author of Liberty or Death talks about his forthcoming book on Tibet and the authorised biography of V.S. Naipaul that he is currently researching in India.
    Mar 10, 2003
    | Nandini Lal
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  • Mahatma’s White Period
    He genuflected before the empire and regarded ‘Kaffirs’ with open racism. Meet Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa.
    Oct 05, 2015
    | Patrick French
  • <b>Fly on the wall</b> Boo’s book works in close-up, so that it feels like a punch in the stomach
    One Leg In A Gunny Sack
    One tastes the entrails of a seething Mumbai slum in this vivid, visceral account
    Mar 05, 2012
    | Patrick French
  • Calcutta Diary
    So what is the key to the problem of West Bengal caught, as it is, between the devil of the old-guard Marxists and the deep sea of Mamata?
    May 09, 2011
    | Anvar Alikhan
  • <b>Vs Re 1</b> After Marxism and Maoism, Mishraism?
    Cameron’s Cuz Is More The Curzon
    Pankaj Mishra’s was more an ideological cry of pain than any honest appraisal of my book, says Patrick French
    Feb 14, 2011
    | Patrick French
  • ‘Now, Economic Change Will Drive Indian Politics’
    The author of India: A Portrait—An Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People on the many unpredictable ways in which India’s vibrant democracy is unravelling
    Jan 17, 2011
    | Sheela Reddy
  • The Princely State Of India
    Analyse Parliament, and a disturbing fact emerges: India is going back to monarchy
    Jan 17, 2011
    | Patrick French
  • <b>History man</b> Guha has got people talking
    League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    An often nostalgic Guha progresses from the ‘loyal’ opposition of the early makers, radicalism of the independence struggle, to the questioning tone of later thinkers
    Nov 15, 2010
    | Patrick French
  • <b>Pinnacle Shot:</b> The investigation of the Bofors howitzer deal was one of the high points of Indian journalism
    Reading The Reader
    There will always be a market for analysis. But will marketers see that in the inkblot?
    Nov 01, 2010
    | Patrick French
  • The India Gene Code
    India’s many failings are obvious enough. But most of its considerable achievements spring from the exalted vision of its constituent assembly.
    Aug 23, 2010
    | Patrick French
  • Naipaul with his mistress Margaret Gooding
    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
    Mar 31, 2008
    | Patrick French
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  • 'A Little Xenophobia Is Not Such A Bad Thing'
    'A Little Xenophobia Is Not Such A Bad Thing'
    Apr 27, 2012
  • 'Democracy Is India's Achilles' Heel'
    'Democracy Is India's Achilles' Heel'
    Oct 03, 2011
  • All About The New Yorker: On Twitter
    All About The New Yorker: On Twitter

    Writer Dan Baum is twittering the whole story of being hired by the New Yorker, after trying for 17 years, and then being let go. Makes you realise how difficult reading a story backwards can be. But the more interesting bits are in the links to the story ideas that worked and those that didn't.

    Someone should have perhaps told him what Vidia Naipaul once told Patrick French:  "Don’t let the New Yorker worry you. The New Yorker knows nothing about writing. Nothing. "Writing an article there is like posting a letter in a Venezuelan postbox. Nobody’s going to read it!"

    May 12, 2009
  • French Letters
    French Letters
     
     
    After the controversy last year, Patrick French's book on VS Naipaul hasn't stopped making waves since it was released in the USA some months back. Ian Buruma's review of the book in the NYRB has led to a rather spirited exchange of letters.
     
    First, a response from Margaret Murray (described in the book as Naipaul's "Anglo-Argentine mistress of 23 years' standing"):
     
    To the Editors:

    On Elizabeth Hardwick's advice, "Never ever speak to them dear. They always get it wrong," I did not cooperate with Patrick French's book [The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul]; nor have I read it. There are a number of things wrong in Ian Buruma's review of it [NYR, November 20, 2008].

    Gillon Aitken was not dispatched to Buenos Aires checkbook in hand. (I wish he had been.)

    There was one pregnancy and one that turned out not to be. I heard nothing about Pat raising the child.

    The majority of my letters to Vidia were written because he had a habit of saying "please write me a little letter." If he chose to leave them unopened, that was his business.

    Not mentioned in Ian Buruma's review is an error by Patrick French: no one has ever called me Margarita.

    Vidia says I didn't mind the abuse. I certainly did mind.

    Margaret Murray
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
     
    This is not all. There are spirited rejoinders from Paul Theroux, Ian Buruma, and Patrick French as well...
    Feb 04, 2009
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