Topic: V.S. Naipaul

Sir V.S. Naipaul, the Indian-origin Trinidadian-British author, was known for his hatred for Islam and his love for Hindutva.

Indians love their diaspora – but the connect has to be unproblematic. Read, no Kamala Harris or Hasan Minhaj.

Front Page It's raining interviews, albeit through email: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has never held a press conference during his tenure so far, and as for the interviews he has given to select TV channels and media houses, questions have rather resembled lollipops rather than hard balls. So the master orator decided he would try and mollify the media with a series of interviews over the weekend. Guess what, though, the PM responds to email now. Predictably, he has taken Twitter by storm. Not one of his back-to-back interviews with The Times of India, ANI, and Hindustan Times is a face-to-face encounter.  Modi spoke on a range of issues from the opposition alliance to unemployment to economic reforms among others. But was it really him? Some unknown hand, for all we know, wrote down what he thinks the PM thinks. Within hours, social media sites were flooded with pro-Modi and anti-Modi comments, challenging the...

The Nobel Prize winner passed away Sunday at the age of 85.

Naipaul was a recipient of the Man Booker Prize in 1971, a knighthood for services to literature in 1990, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.

It’s an incredible disservice to women to continue to reduce them to blank canvasses waiting for male protagonists to paint them over.