The Indian Trilogy: Introduction by Paul Theroux, Paperback Book, By: V.S. Naipaul

Brilliant tender, lyrical, explosive? Observer V.S. Naipaul was twenty-nine when he first visited India. This is his semi-autobiographical account at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered-a revelation both of the country and of himself. India: A Wounded Civilization? A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul's stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts? The Times Prompted by the Emergency of 1975, Naipaul casts a more analytical eye, convinced that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration. India: a million mutinies now? Indispensable for anyone who wants seriously to come to grips with the experience of India? New York Times Book Review It is twenty-six years since Naipaul's first trip to India. Taking an anti-clockwise journey around the metropolises-including Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Delhi-he focuses on the country's development since Independence. The author recedes, allowing Indians to tell the stories, and dynamic oral history of the country emerges.