Word: naipaul
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There are two V.S. Naipauls, and the wrong one has become famous. Like most people, I encountered the wrong V.S. Naipaul first. This happened in the late 1980s, when my brother returned to our small South Indian hometown after his first year at a Californian university. Having left as a quiet, affable boy, he came back a very bad-tempered young man?and this change had taken place, we discovered, because of a writer named Naipaul, whom he had been reading in California. Each time we saw an overcrowded bus or hit a road with potholes, my brother would repeat...
...have portrayed Americans and Europeans as being money-minded, effeminate, sexually promiscuous and decadent - thus providing the intellectual justification for Islamic terrorism. Most attempts to uncover the roots of Islamic rage are unflattering to Islam and to Muslims. In his 1981 book Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul suggested that anger and dispossession are endemic to Islam and easily spill over into fanaticism. For others, Islamic terrorism is the most extreme expression of an age-old conflict between Islam and the West. In a 1990 essay, Princeton historian Bernard Lewis wrote that Muslim anger against the West...
...Most attempts to uncover the roots of Islamic rage are unflattering to Islam and to Muslims. In his 1981 book Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul suggested that anger and dispossession are endemic to Islam and easily spill over into fanaticism. For others, Islamic terrorism is the most extreme expression of an age-old conflict between Islam and the West. In a 1990 essay, Princeton historian Bernard Lewis wrote that Muslim anger against the West "is no less than a clash of civilizations-the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian...
...eight days of discussions and seminars, most of which are open to the public. Yann Martel, Canadian author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi will attend, along with Shobha D?India's answer to Jackie Collins?and Indonesian literary dissident Pramoedya Ananta Toer. (Nobel prizewinner V.S. Naipaul was scheduled to attend but begged off with a literary excuse?he's busy writing...
...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: Mega Power Outage N.Korea/Vietnam: Love in the Time of Kim India: Naipaul's Friendly Fire Milestones...