Annihilating the left-over traces of Colonial Mindset through V. S. Naipaul
Commemorating the 91st Birthday of Nobel Laureate Sir. V. S. Naipaul...
The second of the pentet of pledges extolled by Prime Minister Modi from the ramparts of Red Fort was to “remove any trace of colonial mindset” - the practice by which a powerful country controls another country or countries, in order to become richer.
What better way to identify & incinerate this through the works of the legendary littérateur & Nobel Laureate
Sir. V. S. Naipaul, Who Explored Colonialism Through Unsparing Books.
Sir. V. S. Naipaul, Who Explored Colonialism Through Unsparing Books.
At the core of many of V.S. Naipaul’s novels is colonialism and post-colonial society, where identity and alienation in a multicultural world are central themes.
Mr. Naipaul exempted neither colonizer nor colonized from his scrutiny. He wrote of the arrogance and self-aggrandizement of the colonizers, yet exposed the self-deception and ethical ambiguities of the liberation movements that swept across Africa and the Caribbean in their wake. He brought to his work moral urgency and a novelist’s attentiveness to individual lives and triumphs. His portrayals of third-world disarray have often been read as apologies for colonialism.
ReTHINK INDIA calls upon the setting up of Sir Vidadhar Surajprasad Naipaul Literature Lab at your coveted institution and as a first undertaking, by organising the collective readings of The Indian Trilogy
To be formally unveiled on Wednesday, 17th August 2022https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkduiurjsrG913VHYDuKrYRD0h5KMrRMd_
(commemorating the 90 years of V. S. Naipaul)
at 7 pm on
Faculty of Languages would be the Co-Coordinators of this Lab; would invite participation from students of Grades 6th-12th; would ensure the attendance of the special literary sessions (inviting literary personalities of various genre to interact & inspire) organized by ReTHINK INDIA Institute as a part of this initiative on a weekly basis tentatively on Literary MONDAYS साहित्यिक सोमवार and would make it a point to supervise the recommended engagements as a part of these sessions...
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The INDIA TRILOGY...
The INDIA TRILOGY...
AN AREA OF DARKNESS
‘Brilliant … tender, lyrical, explosive’ Observer
V.S. Naipaul was 29 when he first visited India.
This is his semi-autobiographical account―at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered―a revelation both of the country and of himself.
INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION
‘A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul’s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts’ The Times
Prompted by the Emergency of 1975, Naipaul casts a more analytical eye, convinced that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration.
INDIA: A MILLION MUTINIES NOW
‘Indispensable for anyone who wants seriously to come to grips with the experience of India’ New York Times Book Review
It is twenty-six years since Naipaul’s first trip to India. Taking an anti-clockwise journey around the metropolises―including Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Delhi―he focuses on the country’s development since Independence. The author recedes, allowing Indians to tell the stories, and a dynamic oral history of the country emerges."