Samanth reviews the biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French, tracing his identity crisis, his personal affairs and marriages, evolution of his outlook through his books over the years and ending with the blog author’s personal memories of meeting the man:
Linked by sudipta. Join Blogbharti facebook group.But Mr. Naipaul was to return, mellower and more forgiving. After a visit in 1975, during Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, he wrote India: A Wounded Civilization – still sardonic and critical, but an attempt at some sort of deeper understanding. With India: A Million Mutinies Now, published in 1992, Mr. Naipaul “saw beyond the corruption and violence to something original and redemptive,”
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That unnerving degree of intimacy is a regular feature of this astonishingly definitive biography
Mr. French calls the third book a “personal homecoming,” and that is an astute observation.
Are the only two sentences, where the blogger makes vague resemblance of apologies that can be mistaken for judgements. Rest, is information.
But tailor-made for pseud Indian readers.