India: Million Revolts Today

Author: (British) V. S. Naipaul Huang Daolin
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: The best representative work of writing about India in modern times, witnessing within witnessing, using a series of sounds to depict life in India. The text is genuine and delicate, undoubtedly an enjoyable read. Love is an indispensable element in the narrative—this is Naipaul's true emotion for this land and its people. India: A Million Mutinies Now is almost an oral history of the Indians. Naipaul does not hide his role in the book—a listener, a recorder of the hearts of the Indian people. In 1988, Naipaul traveled through India for the third time, this time focusing on the India he perceived from his childhood in Trinidad, contrasting it with the unified entity of India. After close observation, what he saw was how it fragmented into a mosaic of religion, caste, and class. For Naipaul, this diversity is the very strength of India. Compared to his previous journeys to India, how has his perspective changed? Significantly, perhaps, Naipaul has become closer to, or even more of an Indian himself, enabling him to describe India more accurately to us.