An Area of Darkness is a book authored by V.S. Naipaul in 1964. It is a travelogue penned during the author's sojourn in his ancestral land — India in the early sixties. It was the first of Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy which includes India:...
Laloo-land Many Indians are being left behind AS IT gazes out over the eponymous Gandhi maidan, a huge public lawn in the centre of Patna, the statue of the Mahatma--as always equipped with dhoti (loin-cloth), spectacles and walking cane--looks steadfast but rather...
Last December, during a severe wind storm, a brown wooden telephone pole on Kristin Drive Extension in Chelmsford came crashing down, taking all the wires along with it. GlobeWatch tipster Julie Hicky, who lives across the street from the downed pole, said the...
In the following review, Mander praises Naipaul's descriptive powers, but notes that An Area of Darkness is similar to other novels that explore British influence in colonial India.
