Naipaul & Americanism
I was appalled after going through an interview of V.S Naipaul published in a recent issue of SWM. I've read some of his famous books, but while reading his interview I couldn't help wondering what's happened to the people of this civilisation. He is of the view that some nations deserve to be destroyed from the earth, including Saudi Arabia & Iran as he finds the nations terrorists. Now the sensible question that rises in a sensible mind is that if a person of his stature, who is believed to be a social reformer, a humanist & so on, nourishes the thought of demolishing countries, as Bush & Blair are doing in the name of a war against terrorism, then what is left for the humanity? Suppose these countries are breeding terrorism, though there is no authenticity about the point, can any human think of complete demolition of nations with their innocent people? What Bush has unleashed in Iraq is causing annihilation of innocents at random.
We have to come to the conclusion that V.S. Naipaul does belong to the camp of Busha fatal blow to humanity at large.
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