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V S Naipaul has often been accused of being unsympathetic in his view/portrayal of India, judging from his works. It's quite clear that though this Nobel laureate’s ancestral roots were in India, he never treated it like home and his loyalties were always with Trinidad (the country he was born in) and then Canada, where he chose to settle down.
Even then, Naipaul has had close cultural and literary connections with India and the fact that he has written at least three books on India is testimony to that fact.

Considering this background, I was expecting to read something quite unflattering about India in his Million Mutinies Now...
Heartreningly, the author only takes a dispassionate yet involved view of a changing India through its 80s and 90s, as he travels various parts of the country, meeting people identifying their roots, ideologies and making sense of the various religious, political and social institutions.

Naipaul here takes on the role is a reporter, who painstakingly enumerates what he sees around him.

A fascinating journey into India.