Quote by: V. S. Naipaul

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.


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Author Bio


  • NameV. S. Naipaul
  • DescriptionTrinidadian-British writer
  • BornAugust 17, 1932
  • CountryTrinidad And Tobago
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Journalist; Essayist
  • WorksA House For Mr Biswas; In A Free State; A Bend In The River; The Enigma Of Arrival
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; John Llewellyn Rhys Prize