Amrita Shah’s book, The Other Mohan in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire, is a deeply researched historical work on the Indian diaspora in Britain’s Indian Ocean world. Shah’s book focuses on South Africa ...

Embassy Down tells a suspenseful, fact-based, and often nerve-wracking story of the 2011 attack on the Israeli Embassy in ...

Indian literature, media, and cinema have become poorer with the demise of Pritish Nandy. He made a name as an English poet when he was just a teenager. For his achievements as a poet, ...

V.S. Naipaul admitted to emotionally abusing women close to him. Norman Mailer, once hailed as a literary titan, infamously stabbed his wife. Charles Dickens, while revered for his moralistic ...

In Notes from Underground,” Frank asserts, the writing explodes and implodes and all the time the writer is trapped inside it, not only unable to get out, but unable to see what he has gotten himself ...

What to do with the failings and flaws of Russia's we admire. And the emblematic writer for me when that comes up, isn't Woolf, it's V.S. Naipaul. I mean, the man was a monster. You know, what can you ...

In the past year or so, St. Joseph was featured on the “Town Ball” TV program, and it was a destination for walk-the-city events by officials from the Small Business Administration and the Coalition ...

Tuesday, Feb. 11 will be an important day for the future of everyone living in the Sartell-St. Stephen School District because that is the election day on which voters will decide two referendum ...

I drive to Wiltshire on a rare sunny English summer’s day to interview V S Naipaul in his country home. All his books, fiction and non-fiction, are to be reissued (by Picador in Britain and Knopf in ...

V S Naipaul hasn’t been well. Feeling more comfortable with Indian doctors and medical provision than with the National Health Service, he has been in New Delhi for several months for treatment and ...