V S Naipaul at Tata Literature Live
“I wrote
that 50 years ago. It has a life and a figure of its own — it’s there and you
have to accept it. He explained that A
Million Mutinies was an exploration of India’s modernities in anti-clockwise
chronological order.”
Nilanjana Roy on Indian writing in English
"...much of this writing is made for the
moment, or is mindlessly derivative,
or in urgent need of editing and a grammar
check. You hear of editors
who’re working on over 20-30 books a year—how do you expect them to do a good
job? What is remarkable, though, is the number of young writers who work
to higher standards than the industry currently demands, and who feel no
pressure to write a certain kind of big India novel—they’ve found their own
themes and voices."
Junot Daiz’s muti-culti cred
In showering Mr Díaz with prize after prize,
literary jurors seem to be saying the post-war GMN isn’t dead yet. Is it the
wars, the terrorism, the recession, driving the longing for a regenerated
machismo that Mr. Díaz’s multi-culti cred makes acceptable again? Is it a
feminist backlash?
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