Islam and prejudice: Why Girish Karnad is wrong about Naipaul

VS Naipaul is often attacked for his ideas about India and the damage done to it by Islam. Most recently, the attacker has been Girish Karnad. The playwright says Naipaul regurgitates Orientalist ideas about Muslims and their engagement with India. This is not quite correct, but I’ll come to it later. Karnad says Naipaul’s work shows his “rabid antipathy to the Indian Muslim.”

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