A Writer's People and earlier works of V.S. Naipaul

thinkingstorm, I suggest you google the words Dalrymple and Naipaul.

'The wisdom, the warmth, the humour, and above all the compassion have all gone from the prose;...'

If these ingradients dry-up in Naipaul, then he obviosuly is not a writer of significance.

Though I didnt read Naipaul (is he a nai/hazaam?), I heard him on TV interviews. He's a true sob. I dont know why Farrukh Dhondy writes reams of garbage eulogising this nai/hazaam.

I agree that Dalrymple tend to or appear to take sides but Dalrymple is a scholar-writer, whereas this Nai is a superannuated writer and jerky.

chowk staff,

.... i will not return to the chowk until and unless masadi is TOTALLY banned from this forum - once and for all !

.... make your choice: masadi or hamidm ?

Re: # 20

Hamidm: You seem to be so bitter about Masadi! Why? He looks OK to me!
Kamath

Re: # 21

kamath,

i am just trying to rattle his cage:) ..... the man suffers from schizophrenia, paranoia and all sorts of other mental disorders ..... his biggest ailment and crime against humanity (specially children and juveniles)is sheer stupidity .....take away his mills and boone handbook and the nineteen sixties commie rhetoric and the man is nothing but a hollow shell .......... . i have not seen anything like him on chowk since the insufferable khalid poser ......

Re: # 20

Oye you sound like that older wife who theatens her husband that either she would live in his house or his new bride. It kinda puts everything in perspective about the phrase "chala hoa kartoos"

Re: # 14

nb, i was only aware of paul theroux's falling out with naipaul-thanks for hipping me to this new wrinkle...

Naipaul was in India some months ago and acted like a volcano that knew it was going extinct....spewing bitterness and grab-attention-at-any-cost type of remarks. The press had a gala time but many of us were disgusted and sorry to see that his brilliance and humour seems to have become petulance and old age dementia, almost!!

Naipaul hated punjabi gujrati India Indians i think like all impotent colonised subject hated himself