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“The Miguel Street”, third fictional work by Sir V S Naipaul (after The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira) was first published in 1959 and won the Somerset Maughm Award in 1961. The book is a collection of the prose pictures of various characters living on the Miguel Street in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The story is told in ... Read More »

Yet another month passed, yet another segment finished. Or shall we shall, a new month came, a new segment started! One more chance to live the life with more knowledge and humanity! The new issue of Safari magazine also hit the stands and we are ready to explore the stuff. Ready to dig deep into the content of the same. ... Read More »

Published in 1958, “The suffrage of Elvira” is second fiction novel by Sir V S Naipaul (after The Mystic Masseur) and is set in the colonial world of Trinidad. The story revolves around election in the small town of Elvira portraying variety of characters, each eccentric in its own way but ruthlessly real and tells the story of the transition ... Read More »

The story of “Cat Within” or “Paap Ka Ghada” as it is said in Hindi. We see a greedy landlord cum businessman was behaving rudely ad badly with the renters living there. He keep getting more money from the people staying on rent there for various reasons (e.g. in order to apply for the electricity connection they need to pay ... Read More »

The latest issue of Reader’s digest is out and we were waiting for reviewing the same. Here are the details about the Reader’s Digest India February 2012 Issue. Read More »

This first work of fiction by V S Naipaul was published in 1957 wherein he introduced the readers to the world of Trinidad in West Indies featuring the character of a young man called Ganesh Ramsumair, who by combination of luck and some cunning achieved wealth, success and political power to become one of the most popular men in Trinidad. ... Read More »