V.S. NAIPAUL'S DIASPORIC ARTICULATION

V.S. Naipaul, one of the greatest Caribbean writers in English, has been a great novelist and travel writer. He was born in an Indian Brahmin family in Trinidad in 1932. His grandparents were part of the huge dispersal of Indians to provide indentured labour for the British Empire, after the abolition of slavery, and he himself is in self-imposed exile from his Trinidad birthplace, living in England but claiming never to feel at home anywhere. Starting his journey with an inconsequential land, he locates himself in the centre of imperial power.