V. S. Naipaul Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. August 17, 1932
Birthday: August 17
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
source: V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.239, Vintage
topic: Ideas, Community, India, Arrivals, Disadvantaged, Trinidad, New Arrivals
