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And criticism stretched beyond Cambridge as well, coming from as high up as Capitol Hill. In December, Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kansas) wrote a letter to the Secretary of Education urging that he take on an investigation of legacy policies, which he said enforced a "caste system" in...
On the home front, there are ennobling signs that the nation has transcended the bitter legacy of Vietnam. Aside from a few ill-timed sneers by Dan Quayle, no major public figure has maligned the patriotism of the antiwar protesters. Whatever one's personal views on the wisdom of the...
At the end of his last book on India, V.S. Naipaul wrote that the country's survival depended on seeing the past as dead "or the past will kill." In that volume, India: A Wounded Civilization, as well as in his earlier work on the subcontinent, An Area of Darkness...
India: A Million Mutinies Now is Naipaul's appreciation of how real, individual freedom, first sighted in the distance with India's independence in 1947, has begun to take hold in daily life, to break down the "layer upon layer of distress and cruelty." The result is messy, since those...
Naipaul has retired the familiar, infuriating, immobile face of India and painted a fresh one of human spirit and dramatic change that should become the new starting point for thinking about the country. What Naipaul does not grapple with is the question of whether India can survive burning so hotly...