Volume 38, Number 4 · February 14, 1991
Signs of Life
By Ian Buruma
India: A Million Mutinies Now
by V.S. Naipaul
Viking, 521 pp., $24.95
Near the end of V.S. Naipaul's first book about India, An Area of Darkness, there is an unforgettable piece of writing. It is a description of his visit to the village of the Dubes. It was from there that Naipaul's grandfather left for Trinidad around the turn of the century as an indentured laborer. Naipaul, 'content to be a colonial, without a past, without ancestors,' visits his ancestral village with a feeling of dread.
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