New Delhi: Naipaul is “caste conscious, race conscious and food fanatic”.
This is the opinion of Paul Theroux, the literary giant and once a great friend of Naipaul.
DV has said the same thing about this Brahmin of Indian origin even before Theroux’s celebrated book came to the limelight. (DV Oct. 1, 1998 p.23: “Naipaul will now get the Nobel Prize”).
A front-page report in Times of India says:
New Delhi: The famous falling out of friendship between two literary giants, V.S. Naipaul and close friend Paul Theroux, is now reverberating across India. After a friendship spanning 32 years, Theroux, author of bestselling book, The Great Railway Bazaar, has decided to go public on this spat while Naipaul maintains a sphinx-like silence. Theroux who just returned from Jaipur says he found the caste system very much in evidence even today.
DV proved right in its verdict on Naipaul.
(DV Dec. 16, 1998 p.20: “The Brahmin in Naipaul exposed’).
