Life
Wounded Author
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The Indian government will waive the requirement that Nobel Prize winning author V. S. Naipaul (An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, India: A Million Mutinies Now, A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling) produce documentary evidence of his Indian origins to secure a PIO Card.
Naipaul’s wife Nadira mutinied after officials at the Indian High Commission in London (area of darkness, really?) asked her for documentation that Naipaul’s ancestors hailed from Gorakhpur when she approached them for a PIO card for the 78-year-old author. All applicants for the card must establish evidence of their Indian origins. But making such a demand of a man of Sir Naipaul’s stature? Surely that looks like you are wounding a people’s writer’s feelings. |
