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Lady Naipaul vs Advani at `Pravasi` meet: The Indian Express
New Delhi, Jan 11: Trust V S Naipaul to create ripples when he`s not making waves. The irrepressible Sir Vidia managed that again today when, in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, he called Mahatma Gandhi ``a failure in South Africa.``
New Delhi, Jan 11: Trust V S Naipaul to create ripples when he’s not making waves. The irrepressible Sir Vidia managed that again today when, in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, he called Mahatma Gandhi ‘‘a failure in South Africa.’’
‘‘Twenty years there ended in nothing. But out of that failure rose the great independence movement,’’ Naipaul told a gathering of the Pravasi Bharatiya, asking Indians to look inward and ‘‘stop blaming the British for everything’’ gone wrong.
‘‘Twenty years there ended in nothing. But out of that failure rose the great independence movement,’’ Naipaul told a gathering of the Pravasi Bharatiya, asking Indians to look inward and ‘‘stop blaming the British for everything’’ gone wrong.