Pankaj Mishra on Naipual

Certainly, Naipaul's early predictions about politicised and motivated Indians have been abundantly ratified. But, for all their literary power, his writings cannot lighten the task of those who struggle to decipher today - in the larger postcolonial world as well as in India -the million mutinies that continue to erupt in the great void of the national idea.

Pankaj Mishra, the author of "From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia, on VS Naipaul

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