I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
V. S. NaipaulThe biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. NaipaulI have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
V. S. Naipaul