@alfbnjecp

Such an underrated writer. Love the piece. I read Naipaul in high school after finishing Lapierre’s Freedom at Midnight which had a much more positive take on independence, especially perceived through their close relationship with the Nehrus. Was my grandfathers rec.nnIt led to a reflection on how much the new post-colonial world was unprepared for independence both in governance but also as a collective psyche, especially the Indian and Muslim worlds. nnA few years later, I spent a couple years living in the Caribbean and revisited Naipaul. It amazed me how much he was loved and taken to heart by the West Indies despite his conflicted history with the region. Every secondary student there read Naipaul as their own.

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