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V.S. Naipaul
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Nobel citation said, "V.S. Naipaul is a literary
circumnavigator" and this is evident from his books which he has
written not with the intent of making money but to fulfil his desire for
writing and writing alone.
Naipaul, popularly
known as Sir Vaidya (after he got the British Knighthood), was in Delhi
recently. Although he belongs to the West Indies, his origin goes back
to India and, as expected, he attracted a large number of Indians at one
of the public places where he was to deliver his address.
As he stepped down from his car at the
entrance of the building, I made a request to him to wait for a few
minutes. He obliged and after I made his sketch, I requested him to
affix his signature on it, provided he was satisfied with it. With a
smile and his wife too beaming with eagerness, he signed on the picture
and hurriedly went into the conference hall to meet some well-known
writers before he could address the gathering.
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