“v s harikumar”

Contents : Book: The book presents the current state of knowledge and recent ì development in selected topics of Agricultural Biotechnology. In this ì volume the research papers presented during the National conference on ì Recent Trends in Biotechnology held at Alleppey, Kerala. Author: V S Har... More

Spanning four decades and four continents, this volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from... More

'His level of perception is of the highest, and his prose has become the perfect instrument for realizing those perceptions on the page. His travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the century. Among the Believers is V.S. Naipaul's classic account ... More

In Half A Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willies is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to th... More

My purpose is not literary criticism or biography. I wish only to set out the writing and ways of seeing to which I was exposed.' For the 'serious traveller', one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. So here is colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul's own... More

Naipaul's first travel book - travelling from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean Naipaul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is both a journey to the familiar and to the strange and Naipaul recor... More

V.S.Naipaul has gone back more than once to the illuminations of this startling and original book. It is the most human kind of history, done with a novelist's eye. Living characters large and small are rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative - about the New World, empire, Af... More