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« on: March 25, 2007, 02:03:33 PM »

Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Sunday, March 25 2007
Sir Vidia regains TT citizenship



THE GOVERNMENT of Trinidad and Tobago has restored the citizenship of
the country's 74-year-old Nobel Laureate Sir Vidiahar Surajprasad
Naipaul. As a result Naipaul, who was born in Chaguanas on August 17,
1932, and now enjoys dual citizenship.

The recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature said he was
deeply honoured to be invited by the University of the West Indies, St
Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago to celebrate his work and achievements.
The internationally acclaimed author, made the comment when he visited
Trinidad and Tobago High Commission in London on Friday to collect his
new passport. He was accompanied by his wife Lady Naipaul.

Sir V S Naipaul will arrive in Trinidad in mid-April as a guest of the
University of the West Indies.
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Re: Vidia Naipaul.....VS Naipaul.....a return to Trinidad & Tobago
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2007, 02:09:13 PM »
like he doing a complete 180

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Re: Vidia Naipaul.....VS Naipaul.....a return to Trinidad & Tobago
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2007, 02:30:40 PM »

Trinidad Guardian
Tuesday 27th February, 2007
Noble Nobel move by UWI


AS institutions entrusted with the responsibility of training workforces in higher skills and thinking, universities in developing countries have a major role to play in nation-building.

All over the world, but especially in developing countries, one of the key elements of nation-building is encouraging a sense of pride in the achievements of nationals.

It is the sense of pride that all Trinidadians and Tobagonians felt at the performance of the Soca Warriors at the World Cup in Germany last year. And it is the sense of pride that animates the country when our cricketers perform magnificently or when Brian Charles Lara, the world’s greatest ever batsman, performs another awesome feat.

It is in this context of nation-building that we salute the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies, and its principal Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie, for coming up with the idea of celebrating the three West Indian Nobel laureates.

The first regional laureate that the university is celebrating is VS Naipaul—the world-renowned author who was born and educated in Trinidad—who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2001.


As the high point of this year in which UWI’s St Augustine campus has dedicated to Sir Vidia, the institution is planning to host the writer during the week of April 16 when there will be lectures, readings and book-signings.

The fact that UWI has chosen to honour three of the region’s most illustrious sons, in the way in which it intends to do, may be an indication that the institution has come to terms with its nation-building responsibility.

Part of that responsibility would be to acknowledge the accuracy of the statement made by Sir Vidia in The Middle Passage, a book first published some 45 years ago, that history is built around achievement and creation while at the same time noting the inaccuracy of the words immediately after: “Nothing was created in the West Indies.”

Clearly, UWI’s St Augustine campus is attempting to ensure that the history of the country and the region is built around the achievements and creativity of its academically gifted sons and daughters as well as its athletically gifted ones.

While Sir Vidia lamented the fact that nothing had been created in the West Indies, the fact remains that all of the Nobel laureates were “created” in the region. Sir Vidia himself was born in Chaguanas, grew up in St James, was educated at the State-run, non-denominational Queen’s Royal College and was the recipient of a national scholarship, won through his brilliance, from the Government of T&T.

Sir Vidia’s first five books, including The Suffrage of Elvira which is being serialised by the Guardian, were exclusively based on his experiences growing up in Trinidad.

As someone created in this region, Sir Vidia’s achievements reflect on us all in the same way that the achievements of Brian Lara or Asafa Powell reflect on us. His success should be an inspiration to all of the region’s young people that dedication and discipline along with desire born out of dreams can lead to world-class achievement.

This year, the St Augustine campus honours the writing of Vidia Naipaul. Next year, the life and work of the late St Lucian economist Sir Arthur Lewis will be celebrated while poet and playwright Derek Walcott, born in St Lucia but with strong T&T connections, will be honoured in 2009.

By its actions, UWI’s St Augustine campus will contribute to a new generation of West Indians being introduced to, and becoming familiar with, the lives and works of these great West Indians.

It would surely be the hope of the organisers of these Nobel encounters that the young West Indians are inspired by our Nobel laureates.
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Re: Vidia Naipaul.....VS Naipaul.....a return to Trinidad & Tobago
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2007, 02:36:20 PM »
like he getting nostalgic and more relaxed in his old age ::) ::) ::)
even people who does bad talk trini does want to go"home"
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« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2007, 02:59:13 PM »
this is a very good idea for a lecture series. out of the three, it seem like only walcott gets any love from the community. maybe i'm wrong on this, but lewis and naipaul barely get acknowledged. geez, st. lucia have 2 laureates born there with a population of 100 000 - must be some kind of record. something in the water there  ;)

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« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2007, 03:03:50 PM »
this is a very good idea for a lecture series. out of the three, it seem like only walcott gets any love from the community. maybe i'm wrong on this, but lewis and naipaul barely get acknowledged. geez, st. lucia have 2 laureates born there with a population of 100 000 - must be some kind of record. something in the water there  ;)
welll the reason naipaul seems not to get anylove is cause how people percieved her thought of trini.
his writings use to convery ah kind of frustration with trini culture.
but besides them 2 u mention what about micheal anthony and sam selvon (who people say was a foil for  naipauls tone). 2 very very good underrated writers and not celebrated enough.

i love thier work
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« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2007, 03:34:54 PM »
this is a very good idea for a lecture series. out of the three, it seem like only walcott gets any love from the community. maybe i'm wrong on this, but lewis and naipaul barely get acknowledged. geez, st. lucia have 2 laureates born there with a population of 100 000 - must be some kind of record. something in the water there  ;)
welll the reason naipaul seems not to get anylove is cause how people percieved her thought of trini.
his writings use to convery ah kind of frustration with trini culture.
but besides them 2 u mention what about micheal anthony and sam selvon (who people say was a foil for  naipauls tone). 2 very very good underrated writers and not celebrated enough.

i love thier work

interesting point. this really highlights the purpose of the lecture series. is it about achievement as determined by the world (i.e. critical acclaim by the Nobel committee or those with an "international" perspective) or as determined by trinbagonian intellectuals? the historical discourses between these two perspectives, particularly with respect to high points or milestones, are very different.

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« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2007, 03:41:19 PM »
this is a very good idea for a lecture series. out of the three, it seem like only walcott gets any love from the community. maybe i'm wrong on this, but lewis and naipaul barely get acknowledged. geez, st. lucia have 2 laureates born there with a population of 100 000 - must be some kind of record. something in the water there  ;)
welll the reason naipaul seems not to get anylove is cause how people percieved her thought of trini.
his writings use to convery ah kind of frustration with trini culture.
but besides them 2 u mention what about micheal anthony and sam selvon (who people say was a foil for  naipauls tone). 2 very very good underrated writers and not celebrated enough.

i love thier work

interesting point. this really highlights the purpose of the lecture series. is it about achievement as determined by the world (i.e. critical acclaim by the Nobel committee or those with an "international" perspective) or as determined by trinbagonian intellectuals? the historical discourses between these two perspectives, particularly with respect to high points or milestones, are very different.
at any rate that series woulda been real nice to attend. naipuls life, veiws about tirnidad  and his books are so intimately interwined that even if u dont know anything bout the man and his  work,any trini could find it very interesting.
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Re: Vidia Naipaul.....VS Naipaul.....a return to Trinidad & Tobago
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2007, 04:30:04 PM »
its Sir Vidya Naipaul...

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« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2007, 11:38:50 PM »
this is a very good idea for a lecture series. out of the three, it seem like only walcott gets any love from the community. maybe i'm wrong on this, but lewis and naipaul barely get acknowledged. geez, st. lucia have 2 laureates born there with a population of 100 000 - must be some kind of record. something in the water there  ;)
welll the reason naipaul seems not to get anylove is cause how people percieved her thought of trini.
his writings use to convery ah kind of frustration with trini culture.
but besides them 2 u mention what about micheal anthony and sam selvon (who people say was a foil for  naipauls tone). 2 very very good underrated writers and not celebrated enough.i love thier work

Very true. "Green Days by the River" is still my favourite book and every Trini should read it, even if the reader not from Trinidad it will be enjoyed I think.

Although late in coming, is good to see Naipaul on diplomatic terms with Trinidad again and I hope it improves from that. I doh think anybody wanted him to remain bitter and refuse to return...like Hoe say it mussbe old age

If this is an ongoing lecture/reading series it would be good if they'd bring in younger and more contemporary Trini authors who making a name fuh themselves too, e.g. Dionne Brand, Ramabai Espinet

Naipaul's work is relevant fuh the time it was written but de literary scene needs more contemporary and less post-colonial perspective IMO
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Re: Vidia Naipaul.....VS Naipaul.....a return to Trinidad & Tobago
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2007, 12:45:28 PM »
i think i read some of he short stories for CXC.

ent he write bout man man on miguel street?

wha else he write?

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« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2007, 12:53:27 PM »
i think i read some of he short stories for CXC.

ent he write bout man man on miguel street?

wha else he write?
yes he did.
He also wrote jumbie bird, house for mr biswas,margic seeds, mystic massuer etc
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Re: Vidia Naipaul.....VS Naipaul.....a return to Trinidad & Tobago
« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2007, 05:27:00 PM »
apparently naipaul's controversial writings include:

the middle passage: impressions of five societies - british, french and dutch in the west indies and south america
where he criticizes trinidad,

his india trilogy:
  an area of darkness
  india: a wounded civilization
  india: a million mutinies now

where he criticizes india,

among the believers: an islamic journey
where he criticizes islam,

and a bend in the river
where he criticizes africa

wonder when he getting round to england? ???

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« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2007, 05:32:32 PM »
apparently naipaul's controversial writings include:

the middle passage: impressions of five societies - british, french and dutch in the west indies and south america
where he criticizes trinidad,

his india trilogy:
  an area of darkness
  india: a wounded civilization
  india: a million mutinies now

where he criticizes india,

among the believers: an islamic journey
where he criticizes islam,

and a bend in the river
where he criticizes africa

wonder when he getting round to england? ???
in terms of india u miss out margic seeds. that was a criticism of india also.
he has criticised england but not as openly as he as its colonies. He saw the problem not the the oppresor but with the colonies allowng themselves to be oppresed.
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« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2007, 09:01:54 PM »
apparently naipaul's controversial writings include:

the middle passage: impressions of five societies - british, french and dutch in the west indies and south america
where he criticizes trinidad,

his india trilogy:
  an area of darkness
  india: a wounded civilization
  india: a million mutinies now

where he criticizes india,

among the believers: an islamic journey
where he criticizes islam,

and a bend in the river
where he criticizes africa

wonder when he getting round to england? ???

  If ah didn't read de whole thread ah woulda swear is Imus allyuh talkin' bout here.  ;D


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« Reply #15 on: April 13, 2007, 12:46:01 AM »
Naipaul back home
Newsday
Thursday, April 12 2007


Trinidad-born author Sir Vidia Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, is in the country for the next week as a guest of the University of the West Indies.

UWI has arranged several events to celebrate TT’s most renowned writer, including a series of lectures and a book signing by Naipaul himself. The main event will be on April 18, at 7 pm, with a lecture by Naipaul at the Learning Resource Centre at the St Augustine campus. Although open to the public, tickets must be obtained in advance. On April 19, there will be an international symposium on Naipaul’s works, lasting from 8 am to 8 pm at the same venue.

On April 20, at 5 pm at the LRC, Naipaul will give a reading and autograph copies of his books.

Sir Vidia is in TT with his wife Nadira and stepdaugter Maleeha Maria Naipaul who works as a design publicist.


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« Reply #16 on: May 06, 2007, 08:15:02 AM »
Ramchand: Naipaul a man misunderstood
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Sunday, May 6th 2007

   

VS Naipaul, the writer and the man, has been misunderstood by the society that was once his home. This was one of the main points of Prof Kenneth Ramchand's lecture, "The Writer and the Man: Criticising VS Naipaul",

"None of you may agree with me. But I'll still be right," Ramchand told his audience.

The event, part of the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus', year-long celebration of the Nobel laureate, was held at the Learning Resource Centre, UWI, St Augustine, on Thursday.

In a lecture filled with humorous anecdotes and stories about his personal reaction to Naipaul's writing, Ramchand analysed our perception of the famous writer. He said that some people seemed to be more concerned with Naipaul himself, than with what he wrote:

"The defining characteristic of this ... criticism is that they are more concerned with the man they think the author is, than with the written work."

Admitting that there was something about Naipaul's work that makes the reader take things personally, Ramchand stressed the importance of judging his work on its own merit.

"I often wonder whether we are afraid to experience the work of writers like VS Naipaul who look at the world more uncompromisingly than we do," he said.

Ramchand also shed light on what he says is one of Naipaul's most quoted and misunderstood statements: "History is built around achievement and creation. And nothing was created in the West Indies."

According to Ramchand, if the statement was viewed in the context of the two preceding paragraphs, one would realise that Naipaul was speaking of our colonial past.

Naipaul, he said, was bemoaning the fact that our colonial masters had left us with nothing: no great institutions, no monuments or museums. The statement had nothing to do with the folk art and the culture of the newly emancipated people.

He also commented on the writer's recent interactive session with students at the Lakshmi Hindu Girls' School, saying that it was not well conceived:

"You have a whole bunch of children coming to see and hear a great man and you say that you want to be interactive. Don't be interactive. Bow down. Let him read a story ... and let them ask him things about it. And everybody would have lived happily ever after," he said.

And does Ramchand have any criticism of Naipaul's work? Being careful to note that it did not in any way lessen his respect for the writer, the professor said that Naipaul's earlier works, where he wrote "in a cloud of unknowing", affected him as a reader more strongly than his later works, where he seemed to know exactly where he was going.

"When you read the early works, all kinds of things are going on in your head that, perhaps, he (Naipaul) didn't even know," he said.

The lecture ended with a question-and-answer session. And in response to a question about Naipaul's self-imposed exile from Trinidad, Ramchand said:

"I don't care what he says ... I don't think he ever abandoned Trinidad. Trinidad haunts every page of his writing."
   

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« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2007, 10:08:50 AM »
apparently naipaul's controversial writings include:

the middle passage: impressions of five societies - british, french and dutch in the west indies and south america
where he criticizes trinidad,

his india trilogy:
  an area of darkness
  india: a wounded civilization
  india: a million mutinies now

where he criticizes india,

among the believers: an islamic journey
where he criticizes islam,

and a bend in the river
where he criticizes africa

wonder when he getting round to england? ???

  If ah didn't read de whole thread ah woulda swear is Imus allyuh talkin' bout here.  ;D

 ;D ;D ha - nice one. well, ah finish reading a bend in the river. very challenging book. i appreciate what the critics say about naipaul's "precision" - there is alot of subtlety in the words. with writing this complex, it is a joke to say he criticizing anything. "criticism" is completely the wrong word to use. i have to read this a good few times again.

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« Reply #18 on: June 05, 2007, 02:13:46 PM »
Dey shouda left he ass way ever ......... to much stupid kissmehass Trini does talk to much fart when dey kinda ah make it big in the world. An yuh know what, he eh even ah good author........ read he books, India in particular..... for ah ed- u- ma- cat he should still be in A-B-C class.

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« Reply #19 on: June 05, 2007, 05:55:28 PM »
Dey shouda left he ass way ever ......... to much stupid kissmehass Trini does talk to much fart when dey kinda ah make it big in the world. An yuh know what, he eh even ah good author........ read he books, India in particular..... for ah ed- u- ma- cat he should still be in A-B-C class.

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« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2008, 06:47:02 AM »

I was abused as a child’
BY ANDRE BAGOO Tuesday, April 22 2008

click on pic to zoom inTRINIDAD-born Nobel Lau-reate Sir VS Naipaul was sexually molested as a child by a male relative for years, a new authorised biography published this month reveals.

The child abuse, taking place intermittently over two to three years until Naipaul was ten, is recounted in the opening chapters of Patrick French’s biography The World Is What It Is. The biography, published by Picador in the United Kingdom this month and due to be published by Alfred A Knopf in the United States in November, was approved by Naipaul, 76, for publication without any changes to the text.

Naipaul is quoted in the book as stating that the molestation occurred in Trinidad shortly after 1940, when the Naipauls moved into a family commune in an old colonial house in Petit Valley along with members of their extended family. The family would later move to Luis Street, Woodbrook.

“Cool and shady, with savannah and plenty of snakes, Petit Valley was unfamiliar land,” French notes. Naipaul’s parents “were given a space in the servants’ quarters to the back of the house,” but all of the children slept in a separate area.

“The cousins—boys and girls—were not encouraged to associate with people who lived nearby,” and so, “there were no friends, only family.” It was in this setting that Naipaul’s first unwanted sexual encounter occurred. “The children made their own entertainment,” French notes wryly.

According to the biographer, Naipaul was “seduced by his cousin.” In an interview with Naipaul on July 25, 2002, Naipaul describes the encounter to French. “I was myself subjected to some sexual abuse by an older cousin. I was corrupted, I was assaulted. I was about six or seven. It was done in a sly, terrible way,” he says.

According to French, “molestation continued intermittently over the next two or three years, usually in the area where the boys slept.” “Vidia never mentioned it to anyone, at the time or later. He insisted he was never a willing participant,” French adds.

Naipaul, however, insists that the encounter did not affect his sexuality and said: “I never went through a period of liking the same sex.”

Later, Naipaul, who was honoured with the Trinity Cross, would pen several classics, including A House for Mr Biswas and In a Free State the latter of which features gay characters. In another interview with French on September 20, 2002, Naipaul says, “It was an outrage, but it was not a defining moment. I was very young. This thing was over before I was ten. I was always coerced. Of course he (the older cousin) was ashamed too later. It happened to other cousins.”

Naipaul suggested that child abuse is common: “I think it is part of Indian extended family life, which is an abomination in some ways, a can of worms…After an assault one is very ashamed—and then you realise it happens to almost everybody.”

All children are abused,” he states, adding, “All girls are molested at some stage. It is almost like a rite of passage.”

Yesterday, Naipaul’s sister Kamla Tewarie, 79, told Newsday that despite her close relationship with her brother, he never mentioned his childhood trauma to her. “I don’t know about this. Because if I did I would have been mad like hell. I would have been extremely annoyed. Nothing was told to me,” she said.

Tewarie said that she did not think the experience would have affected her brother’s later life.

“He’s not easily worried by something like that. If he writes something it’s quite honest. It rubs off him, it rubs off me myself,” she said. Naipaul’s child abuse is one of a string of revelations about his life in The World Is What It Is. His later relationship with his first wife, Patricia Ann Hale, is treated in depth as is his decades’ long sadomasochistic affair with Margaret Gooding, an Anglo-Argentinian. Of the latter relationship, French notes, “the affair was to be intense and intensely sexual… (Margaret) liked to be his slave and his victim… (Naipaul) had a mental dependence on both women: the ‘master’ in a masochistic relationship… (He) found himself unable, despite repeated efforts, to break away from either Margaret or Pat.”

How childhood abuse manifests itself in later life is a matter of how the individual deals with it, noted psychotherapist Camille Ojar-Franco yesterday. Ojar-Franco nonetheless pointed out that generally, such abuse affects an adult’s ability to trust persons around him and may fill that person with a lingering sense of shame.

Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2001 “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.” Regarded by many as the finest writer of the English language, he is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction and non-fiction including Miguel Street, A Bend in the River, The Loss of El Dorado and Beyond Belief. His list of glittering literary accolades include: the Booker Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award as well as the Hawthornden Prize.

A Queen’s Royal College, Port-of-Spain graduate, he was awarded an island scholarship in 1949 and left for Oxford University in 1950. His first wife, Pat whom he met at Oxford and married in 1955 died in 1996. He married his second wife, Lady Nadira Naipaul, 55, that very year.

He has not lived in Trinidad for any extended length of time since leaving in 1950. Naipaul was honoured by the University of the West Indies last year.
 

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« Reply #21 on: April 22, 2008, 08:00:36 AM »
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« Reply #22 on: April 22, 2008, 10:16:19 AM »
Naipaul could haul he f**king ass.

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« Reply #23 on: April 22, 2008, 10:20:40 AM »
Naipaul hadda be the most despised national award recipient ...

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« Reply #24 on: April 22, 2008, 08:45:40 PM »
Guys,
           Most of these famous artists tend to be eccentric. There is some method to their madness. Thats what make their talent flow.  Maybe that is why they are famous. Naipaul is a great writer. Deep down, I think Naipaul loves TT, but TT is too small for him. he did all what he had to in TT already. There was nothing more that TT could offer to satisfy his drive.

Yes, he does not bigup TT like other famous people, but you can't take away the TT in him. Even now you can still hear his Trini accent. I have seem him on Tv giving interview and he does not have any strong Brit accent.  Look how long he left TT.

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« Reply #25 on: April 22, 2008, 09:03:51 PM »
Guys,
           Most of these famous artists tend to be eccentric. There is some method to their madness. Thats what make their talent flow.  Maybe that is why they are famous. Naipaul is a great writer. Deep down, I think Naipaul loves TT, but TT is too small for him. he did all what he had to in TT already. There was nothing more that TT could offer to satisfy his drive.

Yes, he does not bigup TT like other famous people, but you can't take away the TT in him. Even now you can still hear his Trini accent. I have seem him on Tv giving interview and he does not have any strong Brit accent.  Look how long he left TT.

Eccentric??  Not bigging up TnT?

Whey you been?? The man DISAVOWED TnT....he has made it known that he is British first, Indian second...and everything else afterwards.



Oh yeah, btw....it just so happens he was born on this small insignificant, nondescript island call Trinidad, but doh concern allyuh self with that.



Let him haul he muddac**t.

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« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2008, 04:55:04 AM »
Naipaul hadda be the most despised national award recipient ...

Naipaul should get another T&T National Award.

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« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2008, 05:27:21 AM »
Guys,
           Most of these famous artists tend to be eccentric. There is some method to their madness. Thats what make their talent flow.  Maybe that is why they are famous. Naipaul is a great writer. Deep down, I think Naipaul loves TT, but TT is too small for him. he did all what he had to in TT already. There was nothing more that TT could offer to satisfy his drive.

Yes, he does not bigup TT like other famous people, but you can't take away the TT in him. Even now you can still hear his Trini accent. I have seem him on Tv giving interview and he does not have any strong Brit accent.  Look how long he left TT.

Eccentric??  Not bigging up TnT?

Whey you been?? The man DISAVOWED TnT....he has made it known that he is British first, Indian second...and everything else afterwards.



Oh yeah, btw....it just so happens he was born on this small insignificant, nondescript island call Trinidad, but doh concern allyuh self with that.



Let him haul he muddac**t.

Exactly. And the setting used for a good portion of his literary work was Trinidad. He does just upset me. He got the best of what ever little we had at the time...and then he identifying himself as English First....Indian Second? Steups.
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« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2008, 08:14:42 AM »
Naipaul could haul he f**king ass.
a same sumthing mi sey from long time!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2008, 08:18:28 AM »
loved most of his books from a liuterary perspective, i  eh rally care what his persoal views are about trini..... personally. it have enough people who claim to ove trini and fukin it over off ah greed, if someone makes me look at trini critically then i find dais god.

loved sam selvon more. Although he use to criticize trini also..his work still had a hopeful tone. Despite our problems etc etc.....

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