V.S. Naipaul's Mutinies, Then and Now
V.S. Naipaul, who wrote some of the best non-fiction in the 20th century, has died. The Guardian describes his non fiction as 'gloomy portraits of India, Africa and Islam in a series of travelogues including 1964’s An Area of Darkness, 1980’s A Congo Diary and 1981’s Among the Believers'.
He saw the the rage of groups in India early on:
Some more gloomy writer would say the million mutinies in India would turn out to be the 'mutinies of the mobs' against each other.
He saw the the rage of groups in India early on:
Some more gloomy writer would say the million mutinies in India would turn out to be the 'mutinies of the mobs' against each other.
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