Recommended by Pankaj Mishra, and 1 others. See all reviews
Ranked #74 in Indian
One of England's greatest writers returns to India, the land of his ancestry, in this majestic and passionate portrait of a culture, a society, and a country. Naipaul explores how the people have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society, by the compromises and contradictions of religious faith, and by the whim and chaos of random political force. less
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Pankaj Mishra This does an excellent job of describing the lives, aspirations and frustrations of a diverse cast of Indians who have lived through the last 60 years. Naipaul is very much in the background here; he just lets people speak (Source)