Amitava Kumar's 'The Green Book' gives a profound insight into the mind of a writer who observes closely and attempts to ...

It is universally agreed that Sir Vidia Naipaul was a great writer of the English sentence; a master stylist and story-teller with a cold, clear eye for the ironies, tragedies and sufferings of ...

In the book, V. S. Naipaul described the disadvantaged neighbourhood of Port of Spain in Trinidad. To appreciate Naipaul's social commentary, it is essential to identify and understand the main ...

V.S. Naipaul has often been accused of being ungenerous, especially in his scathing accounts of Third World countries. His slim new novel tacitly poses the question of the worth of generosity ...

Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died aged 85, his family have said. Sir Vidia, who was born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including A Bend ...

It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of writers ...

The world is what it is.Having ­stolen one of Vidia Nai­paul’s more thought-provoking opening phrases, frankly I don’t feel guilty. I do not believe I stole anything from VS. I’m ...