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He was a historian of India and Tibet, but best known for his biography of Naipaul, which one reviewer described as “a portrait of the artist as a monster.”
In anatomizing the Left’s romance for distant oppressors and contempt for bourgeois democracy, the Naipaul brothers were among the great truth-tellers of our time.
Celebrated for his extensive commentary on both, colonisers and colonised, in fiction and non-fiction, V S Naipaul walked the controversy tightrope, admired for his prose but scorned by those who perceived him as an apologist for imperial powers.
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad 'Vidia' Naipaul or VS Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate, an anti-social yet fragile personality, the writer of majestic novels such as ‘A House for Mr. Biswas and ‘A Bend in the River’ that made him a renowned and one of the most controversial writers, died on Saturday at his London bungalow at the age of 85. Know all about VS Naipaul the Trinidad born controversial Nobel Laureate
CinemaScope: James Bond theme music and its India connect Ian Flemingâs James Bond and his fictional characterisation has always been a big inspiring source for Indian film writers and directors since its first cinematic adaptation in the early â60s Ian Flemingâs James Bond and his fictional characterisation has always been a big inspiring source for Indian film writers and directors since its first cinematic adaptation in the early â60s. Investigative spy thrillers were occasionally made in our cinema in the 1950s too, but the genre got its due attention and momentum, after the release of the first James Bond film in 1962. Post its universal success, the concept, characters and styling got their cult following, and we witnessed several films made with the similar vision having titles like Spy in Rome, Spy in Goa, and many even using Bond and codes similar to 007 like Golden Eyes Secret Agent 077, SOS Jasoos 007, Bond 303, Mr. Bond and more.
Save this story for later. As on most sunny afternoons, I am at a beach on the North Shore of the island of Oahu, sitting in a folding chair, writing on a clipboard, Kaâena Point in the distance, like an extended feline forepaw, and beyond that the Pacific Ocean, deep blue near the shore, whitish at the seam of the horizon. Kaâena Point is sacred in Hawaiian lore for being the place where the spirits of the dead depart, by jumping from a certain lava rock (the Leina a ka âUhane, or the âleaping place of soulsâ), to Po, which means âdarkness,â but also âthe realm of the gods.â