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The deliberate deracination doesn't deem decidedly well for Vidia, as the transplantation to England turns tough. Now doubly displaced, he resolves to remain removed from any and all relations, be it personal, political or social. Courting desolation for the purpose of writing well, in service of literature, a prickly personality emerges. But the gamble begins to pay up when Vidia beats the English at their own game.
— Jan 12, 2022 12:11AM
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Aditya आदित्य
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The sophistication of craft, rarefaction of personage, and a parallel decay in relations closes to completion, with him at the global literary summit, surrounded by shattered fragments of those once close to him. Depressingly, Vidia remains as unfulfilled as ever, unable to savour the achievement of ambitions, cherished since childhood, earned through an arduous destructive life. Perhaps the alternative being worse.
— Jan 13, 2022 12:49PM
Aditya आदित्य
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A conventionally poor Indian childhood in an unconventional colonial Trinidadian setting tried to check a precocious Vidya in futility. On the contrary, it was this lack of means that propelled him to Oxford, serving as a dreadful promise of economic stagnation and intellectual coma had he failed to leave. Thousands of miles away, in England, it still haunted him as prejudice. But he didn't settle for deprivation.
— Jan 05, 2022 07:27AM
