V.S. Naipaul

Colonel James Tod, travelling by elephant through Rajasthan with his cavalry and sepoys (Indian school, 18th century)

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Peter Parker on the age-old allure of the Indian subcontinent

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It is six years since Hanif Kureishi’s last novel Something to Tell You, a kaleidoscopic meditation on life and death…