Those who have read Naipaul's relatively more famous 'A Bend in the River', should remember that when Indar the professor took his childhood friend Salim to a party at historian Raymond's house Joan Baize's excellent songs on injustice and 'end of the world'(from nuclear threat) were being played. Salim knew for sure that those were make believe. He felt that only those who got justice most of the times and are expecting to get it as before could sing such sweet songs on injustice. Those who knew that the world would go on and they were safe in it were likely to sing such songs on the end of the world. Naipaul never believed in a hasty, romantic and adventurous way of improvemrnt that has… Read more
