Remembering Naipaul...
Commemorating the 5th Punyatithi of the Literary Giant of The India Trilogy Fame...
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 was awarded to Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
"for having united perceptive narrative and
incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see
the presence of suppressed histories"
Life
British author V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, with family roots in India. At the age of 18, he left Trinidad for studies in the United Kingdom, where he ended up staying. Naipaul made his debut with the novel The Mysterious Masseur in 1957. Naipaul has devoted much of his life to travel in different places in the world, which has come to be reflected in his novels as well as his travel writing and reportage.
Work
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.
The novel A House for Mr. Biswas became a great success when it was published in 1961,
and it also became Naipaul’s international breakthrough.
Set Up the
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul Literature LAB at your Institution….
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul Literature LAB at your Institution….
To be formally unveiled on Wednesday, 17th August 2022 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkduiurjsrG913VHYDuKrYRD0h5KMrRMd_
(commemorating the Centenary of V. S. Naipaul)
at 9 am 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."