Volume 23, Number 8 · May 13, 1976
The Wounds of India
By V.S. Naipaul
'India will go on,' the novelist R. K. Narayan had said in 1961. And for the peasants of Bihar or Bundi with their knowledge of karma, India was going on; the Hindu equilibrium still held. They were as removed from the Emergency in 1975 as Narayan himself had been from the political uncertainties of 1961.
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