Naipaul V. S., Autograph letter, signed, dated 25 March 1980, 1 page, 105 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LJ Addressed to Dr Banik, in response to his earlier correspondence. References to the intellectual life of Bengal and films of (Satyajit Ray . In parts: Dear Dr Banik Thank you for your very long and intimate letter of 30 January, which was waiting for me(...). You are absolutely right about the Bengali world ; I should have made it clear that Bengal was intellectually quite separate from India. (...) But the intellectual life the rest of India develops, there has been an angry explosion of high-quality journalism in the last three years or so (...) and there is a little less of the nostalgia in the good old days of the village (...)
Naipaul V. S., Autograph letter, signed, dated 25 March 1980, 1 page, 105 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LJ Addressed to Dr Banik, in response to his earlier correspondence. References to the intellectual life of Bengal and films of (Satyajit Ray . In parts: Dear Dr Banik Thank you for your very long and intimate letter of 30 January, which was waiting for me(...). You are absolutely right about the Bengali world ; I should have made it clear that Bengal was intellectually quite separate from India. (...) But the intellectual life the rest of India develops, there has been an angry explosion of high-quality journalism in the last three years or so (...) and there is a little less of the nostalgia in the good old days of the village (...)
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