Dawn of Empathy: V. S. Naipaul’s India: A Million Mutinies Now
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932- ), the expatriate writer of Indian origin, is one of the most prominent figures in the list of exiles and expatriate. Born in Trinidad, he is a third generation descendent of a family of Brahmin Pundits, hailing from a village in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. He has been recognised as a Commonwealth writer, a world traveller, a voice of the Indian diaspora and a literary figure of world significance. Besides being a noted novelist, he is a great travel writer too. His fictional and non-fictional writings deal with the problems of colonial, postcolonial, and Third World societies. He has written extensively on alienation, displacement, identity crisis and frustration of diasporic people. Naipaul has been placed as an exile figure, a rootless nomad in the literary world, always on a voyage to find his identity.
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