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V.S. Naipaul

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    V.S. Naipaul (1932-2018)

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  • V.S. Naipaul

    His Area of Light He may be old, infirm, but Sir Vidia's still got the gloves on. At the Jaipur jamboree, the crowds "were hanging on to his every word". Seen here with wife Na...

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    “Once you have expectations, you’ll eventually fail to see what you want to see. I’m just here to observe.” So spake V.S. Naipaul, 82, maintaining that he did not have any...

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    Nobel laureate V S Naipaul launched the Chinese edition of his celebrated novel A Bend in the River. This is first visit to China where he is attending the Shanghai literary festiv...

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  • V.S. Naipaul

    Edge writing Would Naipaul have been held too?

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    The estranged old friends Paul Theroux and V.S. Naipaul came face to face at the Hay festival ,Theroux turned to Ian McEwan, who happened to be with him, and asked what he should ...

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    Prashant Panjiar
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    Day In Pictures

    Trinidad-born British writer V.S. Naipaul, was named as the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in literature. The author of more than 20 books has written in both fiction and non-ficti...

    Prashant Panjiar
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    Noble Laureate V.S. Naipaul, (centre), along with Booker prizewinner Vikram Seth, (left), and Amitav Ghosh (right), participates at the International Festival of Indian Literature ...

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    Week In Pictures

    26 FebruaryBJP was still suirming over having to expel DP Yadav shortly after having admitted him to the party with much fanfare. But help was at hand in the form of Sir Vidia who ...

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    Thursday 14 OctoberSir Vidia released his Magic Seeds in Delhi saying it sums up his literary life "by uniting the different worlds I have lived in. This is likely to be my last bo...

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    Sir V.S. Naipaul-- Lady Nadira Naipaul  Naipaul and Nadira met at a party where she impulsively kissed him on the cheek. He married the twice-divorced Pakistani journo in 199...

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    2006: Books

    "I Have A Cloth Ear" "We thought it was quite original. In the end, though, I'm afraid we just weren't quite enthusiastic enough to be able to offer to take things further." So ...

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    Newsmakers 2001

    V.S.Naipaul: At last, the Nobel, for the man who has, for years, been referred to as "the best living writer in English on the planet". This, in a year when Sir Vidia has rarely be...

    AP
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    British playwright and poet Harold Pinter, whose juxtaposition of the brutal and the banal resulted in an adjective that bears his name, has won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature...

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Website
  • When VS Naipaul Was Bowled Over By Congress Leader Ram Niwas Mirdha
    Mirdha held several portfolios including external affairs, water resources, communication and textiles. He died in 2010.
    Aug 12, 2018
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Laureate And Novelist, Dead At 85
    Naipaul's early works focused on the West Indies, but came to encompass countries around the world, often focusing on the traumas of post-colonial change.
    Aug 12, 2018
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Naipaul And The Sikhs Of Argentina
    Notes from a trip in 1976 through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
    Jul 28, 2015
    | Prabhu Ghate
  • V.S. Naipaul And The Hindu Gangsters Of Bombay
    'He had concluded, or had been told, that the mafia in the city was made up of Muslims and Muslims alone... Mr Naipaul kept thinking I had brought him to meet a Muslim gang'
    Aug 13, 2014
    | Ajith Pillai
  • Those Magnificent Invading Musical Muslims
    Naipaul's views on Islam as well as their critique by Karnad show that Indian Islam continues to be reduced to chauvinistic or progressive clichés
    Nov 07, 2012
    | Rohit Chopra
  • Why Has Naipaul Been Honoured?
    The noted playwright takes Landmark and Literature Alive to task: 'Do they mean to valorise Naipaul's stand that Indian Muslims are raiders and marauders? Are they supporting his continued insistence on Muslim buildings in India being monuments to
    Nov 02, 2012
    | Girish Karnad
  • 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 cre
    Dec 01, 2004
    | Amit Chaudhuri
  • 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
    Apr 28, 2004
    | 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 forei
    Mar 08, 2004
    | Farrukh Dhondy
  • 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?
    Feb 27, 2004
    | Aman Khanna
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  • When FBI Killed Naipaul A Decade Before He Died
    David Headley was one of the weakest links, but Indian authorities failed to sniff him out. That’s an important lesson in how to avoid another 26/11.
    Nov 15, 2018
    | P.K.H. Tharakan
  • V.S. Naipaul: Bounty Of Barbs
    The writer and the man were ­inextricably intertwined. Both not made for the faint-hearted.
    Aug 16, 2018
    | Shoma Chaudhury
  • The Bhashanglo Tangle
    Questions the Nemade-Rushdie spat raises
    Feb 23, 2015
    | Tabish Khair
  • <b>Barbed words</b> Ananthamurthy with Karnad
    The Many Masques Of The Playwright
    Girish Karnad’s gratuitous blasphemies and fulminations are aimed at keeping him in the limelight
    Oct 20, 2014
    | Sandeep Balakrishna
  • The Never Forgetters
    Naipaul’s passe, our national secularism project needs new legs
    Nov 19, 2012
    | Amitabha Bagchi
  • <b>No-comfort zone</b> Journalists protest the killing of J. Dey
    Red Ink From The Octopus
    Journalists working underworld links are in danger from all sides
    Dec 19, 2011
    | Ajith Pillai
  • Bibliofile
    So what explains Sirji V for Vendetta's latest? Patrick French says he has no clue.
    Oct 04, 2010
    | Outlook
  • Bibliofile
    Sirji's latest pet peeves — His Salmanness, Hindu nationalists, Patrick French, Downing Street, India’s obsession with “money, money, money, money, money”
    Sep 20, 2010
    | Outlook
  • Delhi Diary
    As Pakistan struggles to cope with the worst humanitarian disaster in living memory, India needs to show both generosity and grace.
    Sep 06, 2010
    | Vinod Mehta
  • To Sir Vidia: With much candour, less love
    The Man, The Myth And The Genius
    Patrick French reveals enough devil in Naipaul, the autocrat and the alchemist
    Apr 21, 2008
    | Sunil Khilnani
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Blog
  • Naipaul, Then And Now
    Naipaul, Then And Now
    Feb 06, 2015
  • The Naipaul-Theroux Handshake
    The Naipaul-Theroux Handshake
    Jun 01, 2011
  • 'No One In India Has Ever Spoken In One Voice'
    'No One In India Has Ever Spoken In One Voice'
    May 17, 2011
  • Naipaul On Jyoti Basu
    Naipaul On Jyoti Basu

    An interview with VS Naipaul led to some discussion on a mailing list I am on, till I realised it was an old--1999--interview with Outlook:

    Who'd be your nominees for the three most significant Indians of this century? And why?

    The first two are inescapable: Gandhi for awakening a country that had been torpid for centuries, Nehru for being a democrat and a humane man who did not abuse his power. I cannot think of a third figure of this stature and I would like instead in a spirit of mischief to nominate two buffoon figures who might stand as a warning to India of the dangers of mimicry. There is the half-witted Vinoba Bhave, the mimic mahatma. And there is Mr Basu in Calcutta, the mimic Marxist. I suppose when he goes his followers might want to embalm him like Lenin and put him on show in the Maidan.

    More here

    Feb 11, 2010
  • 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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News
  • After Attacking Rushdie, Nemade Now Attacks V.S. Naipaul
    After Attacking Rushdie, Nemade Now Attacks V.S. Naipaul
    Mar 13, 2015
  • My Mother Had Asked Me to Leave India to the Indians: Naipaul
    My Mother Had Asked Me to Leave India to the Indians: Naipaul
    Jan 24, 2015
  • VS Naipaul Dropped From Bali Festival 'Over Large Fee'
    VS Naipaul Dropped From Bali Festival 'Over Large Fee'
    Sep 17, 2014
  • V.S. Naipaul, Elanor Catton Set to Attend JLF 2015
    V.S. Naipaul, Elanor Catton Set to Attend JLF 2015
    Sep 10, 2014
  • Naipaul Launches Chinese Edition of <i>A Bend in the River</i>
    Naipaul Launches Chinese Edition of A Bend in the River
    Aug 13, 2014
  • Karnad Rules Out Any Apology to Naipaul
    Karnad Rules Out Any Apology to Naipaul
    Nov 03, 2012
  • I Have Written Enough About India: V.S. Naipaul
    I Have Written Enough About India: V.S. Naipaul
    Nov 01, 2012
  • No Woman Writer is Equal to Me: Naipaul
    No Woman Writer is Equal to Me: Naipaul
    "My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. I don't mean this in any unkind way."
    Jun 02, 2011
  • PIO Denial to Naipaul, OIA Seeks Report from Mission
    PIO Denial to Naipaul, OIA Seeks Report from Mission
    Jul 06, 2010
  • A PIO Card for Mr Naipaul?
    A PIO Card for Mr Naipaul?
    The babus wanted "documents". Lady Nadira walked off in a huff. Now the government "willing to make an exception for a person of eminence like him".
    Jul 05, 2010
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