Why Girish Karnad isnt wrong about V.S. Naipaul

November 05, 2012 13:02

Once the word got around that Girish Karnad had evisceratedVidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, the Trinidad-born British writer who had been given the lifetime achievement award at the Tata Literature Live! Festival in Mumbai, the battle-lines were drawn clearly.

Karnad had to be wrong because Naipaul was great and his critics were insignificant (he is a lion and people like me are "rats', as someone on Twitter described me, when I defended Karnad, although Naipaul would have shown off his wider vocabulary, and called his critics "pygmies' or something suitably outrageous). More

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