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.