Vs Naipaul

The great railway chronicler

'The Great Railway Bazaar' is inflected with literary ideas and references to fictional worlds

The art of travel reading

The market for travelogues in the West is well established. In India it's still struggling because 99 per cent of those who travel can't write or even know what good travel writing is

Panther poetry

The internationalist outlook of the Dalit Panthers has been described as fitting 'into the global mosaic of anger, protest, demonstrations, violence, and youthful revolutionary upsurge'

Recording our time in history

Writing requires experience, and the material to credibly insert into your text, and experience can only come with age

Letter to BS: Literature loses a titan, author V S Naipaul dies at 85

VS Naipaul was simply a magicican who used words to weave his magic. A dozen stack of books to his name, Naipaul truly showed that he could make any subject worth reading