Vs Naipaul

When I arrived in London I saw a program late at night called hard talk and it featured Vs Naipaul...

A seemingly sad old man ... or maybe tired? I waited for him to mention something that would inspire me to create something fantatastic here in London.

The host asked him ...what sort of influence has your background had on your writing ... you came from Trinidad...

To my astonishment he said trinidad was a long time ago? The navel string semed to have been broken and buried a long time for mr Naipaul.

Over time we have watched different goverments suck up to our external "citizens", praise and applaud them for their achievements but do we have to parade them everywhere for what looks obviously like political gain?

As we get older different things become important ....life......home ...identity and in Mr Naipaul's case, legacy as he is rumoured to be ill.


So we gave him citizenship....and he accepted happily and has come home maybe for one last time?

Mammy always said "all skinteeth is not smile" and many handshakes and almost $2,000,000 tt later we feel dissapointed in a man who is a child of our soil but has'nt really come home in person or in heart for a long time.

The man is a nobel prize winner, just send him a medal and call that george. He cant relate to the curiousity of young children and shouldnt be asked to pretend that he is enjoying it.


As he himself said Trinidad is a long time ago, so give him a house or something and let him fade away. In time all we will remember is he won a nobel prize and that will be good enough to inspire others.