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VS Naipaul

Back Together

Rajni George

The biggest bromance in contemporary literary history comes full circle at JLF, as VS Naipaul and Paul Theroux drive out together

Ten Sessions to Attend at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival

What not to miss at the eighth edition of the world’s largest free literary party, which begins on Wednesday in Jaipur

Writer’s Bloc

Hanif Kureishi’s sharp new novel is not only a riff on the Naipaul-French saga, but also an exploration of his own fascination for writers and their habits

Old Aunt Girish

Karnad’s outrage over an award to Naipaul seeks to impose irrelevant standards on a writer

The Thorough Mr Theroux

Paul Theroux on his latest novel set in Calcutta, on how Naipaul ‘oversimplified the city in one of his belittling books’, on why you can never trust writers...

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