Naipaulian tour: Trinidad’s first family of literature

Comprehension problems persist with you ramesh ! reverence ?

Miguel Street was on our high school Literature reading list !

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Usual Trini comess  I going with Mapoui viewpoint on VS  8)

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Comprehension problems persist with you ramesh !

reverence ? Miguel Street was on our Literature reading list !
[/quote] It makes you feel better to believe that I have comprehension problems.

ramesh , we see daily kwami , berbicians et al agonising over this

and me pointing this fact out :

Naipaul's earlier statements, especially his remarks that the first Mughal emperor

Babur's invasion of India "left a deep wound",

are consistent with ideas Naipaul has been airing for many years now.

Ancient Hindu India was destroyed."

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ramesh , we see daily kwami , berbicians et al agonising over this

and me pointing this fact out :

Naipaul's earlier statements, especially his remarks that the first Mughal emperor

Babur's invasion of India "left a deep wound",

are consistent with ideas Naipaul has been airing for many years now.

Ancient Hindu India was destroyed."
[/quote] Naipaul is absolutely correct The Barbur invasion destroyed Ancient India and the scars from those wounds has still not healed.

It might seem unlikely that a Nobel Laureate

would put himself in a position of apparently endorsing an act

that spawned mass murder -

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It might seem unlikely that a Nobel Laureate

would put himself in a position of apparently endorsing an act

that spawned mass murder -
[/quote] The  real mass murders were committed by the Muslims  invaders

Nobel can be purchased....we usually meet the queen and get knighted...

or collect Gold : see above

no kiss me arse nobel for jackasses like Naipaul 

Nevertheless, Naipaul's entirely negative understanding of India's Islamic history

has its roots firmly in the mainstream imperial historiography

of Victorian Britain. 

More striking still was the quote attributed to Naipaul about the destruction

of the Babri Masjid, Babur's mosque, in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, a decade ago:

"Ayodhya is a sort of passion," he said. "Any passion is to be encouraged.

Passion leads to creativity."

For a man whose work contains many eloquent warnings of the dangers

of misplaced political passions -

this might appear to be a surprising volte face  ::LOL:: a.k.a  Trini comess

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Vidia wasn't very flattering to his father's memory! 
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wait, wait ...fellah could not get along wid he own Father ? **phew**

sounds like Chin and she faddah !