India - VS Naipaul

 

Series of Interviews and inferences 

Bombay Theatre 

• Jain Stock broker Papu
• Patil Sena Leader Shiva Sena
• Anwar office worker
• Vithal and Gangsters 
• Raote Sena Leader Shiva sena
• Ghate in Dharvi Shiva Sena 
• Pujari, Saraswath Brahmin
• Script writer from Calcutta 
• Namdeo and Mallika
• Anxiety of Money, Caste Space and the Other 

Secretary s Tale

• Story of Rajan, Secretary to a Politician 

Breaking Out

• Set in Karnataka
• Interviews with mainly people with Brahmin background who are changing their traditional priestly work to other areas - Mostly out of Karnataka State - Scientists, Clerks, Office work, Librarian of Wodeyar - Deviah, Subramanian,Pravas, Kala, Politician Prakash, Mysore and Bangalore Palaces

Little Wars

• Set in Tamil Nadu , Chennai
• Sugar, Mylapore Brahmin, Solitary man and Local Saint 
• Kakusthan, Triplicane Brahmin, his double transformation and his Family 
• Brahmanical Purity 
• Physical, Genial and Mental
• Periyar and rise of Dravidanism 
• Periyar and Gandhi
• Biblical photos of periyar life , Dravidian Iconography and engravings in periyar thidal
• Education of the middle caste and their rise 
• Downtrodden missing out
• Peasant revolts crushed
• Intelligent Brahmin Vs Average Brahmin 

After the Battle 

• Set in Calcutta
• Chidananda - Boxwallah to Film Society 
• Ashok - Boxwallah to New Age Sales and advertising manager
• Dipanjan - Physyics Phd, Ex Party member, part of peasant revolt, Teaches in college
• Debu - Boxwallah,party member, worked with peasant revolt, worked with Charu Majumder, Opposing execution Killings as a Strategy 
• Ambition Vs Idealism Vs Reality
• Marxist Lenninst Fallout
• Naxalite Fall out 
• Nostalgic Communism 

The End of the Line

• Set in Lucknow 
• 1857 Mutiny in Lucknow - Account by Howard Russell, First war of Independence 
• Rashid, Elite Muslim and the pent up anger of defeat
• Amir, A prince, Son of Muslim League Treasurer, Shia,Talks about pain, becomes Reluctant Cong MLA
• Set on Partition Family connections across India,Pakistan and Middle East, Differences between Evolving India and Pakistan in terms of Religion.

Women's Era

• Set in Delhi , background of Women magazine content and audience 
• Vishwanath of Women's Era
• Personal dilemma combining 
• Living like Rats
• Strings from the past 
• Passive Inactions to Foreign rule - Brahmin, Non Brahmins 
• Humiliation of being ruled over 
• Individual desire 
• Need for a Missionary Response to above factors 
• Response in Missionary fashion Contradicting to the Indian way of ever reconciling attitude with the reality or Change or Subjugation
• Aura of Missionary Response similar to Ascetic response 
• Ascetical Ambitions
• Wounded Civilizations Response

Shadow of the Guru

• Set in Punjab
• Lineage and History of Guru and Sikhism
• Bhindranwale and Operation Bluestar 
• Gurtej Singh
• Kapur Singh
• Feeling of Religious Persecution 
• Sufferings of the Guru Juxtaposed with Current day Sufferings 
• Trail of Bhindranwale Killings and Counter Killings 
• Patiala - Amarinder Singh

The House on the lake

• Set in Kashmir 
• Remembering two visits one in 1962 and another in 1988 set during the period for current book
• Kashmir Raja and Shiite Influence 
• Mohd Aziz and Butt of leeward hotel in Srinagar 
• Nazir, Aziz's Son