Elephant Head
Karl Miller, 27 September 1990
India: A Million Mutinies Now
by V.S. Naipaul.
Heinemann, 521 pp., £17.50, September 1990,0 434 51027 0 Show More
by V.S. Naipaul.
Heinemann, 521 pp., £17.50, September 1990,
“... time you went for tea.’ Aziz had been on the pilgrimage to Mecca, and Naipaul remembers the ‘hanks and twists of excrement’ witnessed on a Himalayan pilgrimage in 1962. ‘There were toilets everywhere between Jeddah and Mecca. It wasn’t like Amarnath. Everything was clean in Mecca.’ The chapter spends too much time on battles of will over a ... ”