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Naipaul's trenchant and precise language is luxurious and intoxicating. He presents a variety of personalities and situations from across India, a rather casual sampling considering the vast population of the country. While he manages well to describe and give a feeling to the various regions, cities, desperations and exultations of the country, he does not quite manage to pull the picture together in any regard save the historical. And the historical insights he gives are extremely valuable, perhaps providing the only clue to the continued fate of the Indian people.