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Book Review: Behind the Beautiful Forevers ,In her brilliant debut, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes an unsparing look at the crippling poverty of a Mumbai slumPosted on 2 February 2012 | 11:39 pm
MAKING A TRADITIONThe recurrent irritation that Salman Rushdie causes to India, and that India in turn causes to Salman Rushdie — a bad marriage that has gone on for the past three decades despite every sign of an impending divorce — extracts collateral costs from the entire reading public.
Posted on 25 January 2012 | 10:27 pm
The nexus between place and peopleI am most grateful to the British Council and its Director and his staff for hosting this event, to coincide with the planned expansion of its plant, in fulfillment I hope of increasing and increasingly productive activity in Sri Lanka.
Posted on 22 January 2012 | 7:42 pm
The Joy of Reading Graham GreeneAn interview with Pico Iyer about his latest book, a memoir about his relationship with Greene's work
Posted on 9 January 2012 | 2:28 pm
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The comedy of the colonised - Asian AgeThe comedian’s quip was then ‘Why don’t Asians play football? — Because every time they get a corner they set up a shop.’ On the strength of a few series of situation comedy for TV and the fact that I have written material for stand-up ...Posted on 3 February 2012 | 8:54 pm
Connected by displacement - Gulf NewsIts publication not only brought critical acclaim but also comparisons to several modern masters — James Joyce, V.S. Naipaul and J.G. Ballard, among others. I ask him what it is like to be compared to such greats for a first novel. He chuckles.
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 11:58 am
SOMETIMES THERE IS A VOID - New York TimesLike V. S. Naipaul’s, his imagination has been shaped by three societies. At age 15, Mda abruptly fled into exile, following his radical father to Basutoland (now Lesotho), the tiny, impoverished mountainous kingdom surrounded by South Africa.
Posted on 27 January 2012 | 10:57 pm
Milan Fashion Week Goes Conservative -MILAN — There is a moment in Sir Vidia’s Shadow, Paul Theroux’s memoir of a long friendship with the Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, when the writer describes the giddy pleasure Naipaul took in contemplating wealth. “Smiling beneath his sunglasses ...
Posted on 26 January 2012 | 11:55 pm
A Few Reflections on the Departure of EricThe late Edward Said once noted that V.S. Naipaul, committed an “intellectual disaster,” upon writing “Among the Believers.” Eric it seems has committed an intellectual disaster upon reading Robert Spencer, a man who claims that ...
Posted on 24 January 2012 | 8:23 pm
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A Writer's People by V. S. NaipaulA Writer's People by V. S. Naipaul http://t.co/KDflYkJH via @zitePosted on 5 February 2012 | 4:08 am
The World Is What It Is: The first majorThe World Is What It Is: The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laurea... http://t.co/pt1f07LM
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 2:17 am
V. S. Naipaul (Cambridge Studies in AfricanV. S. Naipaul (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature): This introductory study offers a critical... http://t.co/MtNAU9Au
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 10:40 pm
V.S. Naipaul: V. S. Naipaul is probably theV.S. Naipaul: V. S. Naipaul is probably the most controversial writer to emerge from the Caribbean. This is the ... http://t.co/LXt0a1jY
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 10:29 pm
Among the Believers: "Among theAmong the Believers: "Among the Believers" is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Paki... http://t.co/cR03tKXJ
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 10:27 pm
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Nobel Banquet speech, VS Naipaul 2001Nobel Banquet speech, VS Naipaul 2001. February 4, 2012. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 2001 VS Naipaul presents his 2 minute speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2001. For more information about the Nobel Prize in ...Posted on 4 February 2012 | 6:21 am
Bookends: A Bend in the River by V SA Bend in the River by V S Naipaul. I came to this book by way of recent reading about the Congo. This book is mainly set there, though the country is never named, either as Congo or Zaire. But 'The Big Man', who exerts a ...
Posted on 29 January 2012 | 3:43 pm
LeRoy's Pink Fist: V. S. NaipaulPICTURES OF LILY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv99qGqJ6R4&feature=related. Thursday, January 19, 2012. V. S. Naipaul. Posted by Paul LeRoy Gehres at 5:35 AM · Newer Post Older Post Home. Blog Archive. ▼ 2012 (117) ...
Posted on 19 January 2012 | 1:35 pm
Ne travaillez jamais: A Bend in the River,A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul (1979). This is the first Naipaul novel I've read, and I found the experience quite disorienting, in ways both pleasurable and upsetting. I think my upset is what will persist, and that may be a ...
Posted on 12 January 2012 | 3:24 pm
Arukiyomi » 0349 | In a Free State | V.0349 | In a Free State | V. S. Naipaul. Context: Was reading this when I visited the National Orchid Garden of PNG outside Port Moresby. Amazing variety of the weirdest-looking flowers I've ever seen.
Posted on 8 January 2012 | 1:19 am
