Resumo de India A Million Mutinies Now

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?India a Million Mutinies now? is a fascinating journey
through India, of the late 1980s and early 1990?s,
showcasing its on-going struggles, triumphs, and upheavals
through the stories of common people. It is a travelogue by
the noble prizewinning, Trinidad-born Indian author V.S
Naipaul.
The book is a compilation of interviews or conversations
with the people of India, from different walks of life. He
meets with Hindu and Muslim extremists, with Atheists,
rationalists- anti-Brahmin rebels, Gangsters, Sikh
terrorists, communist leaders and with former Naxalite
rebels. Ordinary people like government officials,
filmmakers, stockbrokers, and holy men. Naipaul succeeds in
bringing a common thread to all the interviews; he goes on
from one to another almost seamlessly. He sees things with
a rational point of view, does not romanticize, or
sugarcoat facts for the sake of political correctness. He
doesn?t hesitate in talking about the sorry state of
affairs in the country, accusations made are sometimes
harsh and he has no qualms in expressing them.
Naipaul crisscrossed the nation, from the West, Bombay to
the East, Calcutta, and from Kashmir in the North to Madras
in South. Throughout his journey he keeps reverting back to
his life in Trinidad. The customs and rituals he performed
then, without thinking or involuntarily were given meaning
and reason in India. Like eating off banana leaves after a
special religious occasion in his grandmother?s house was
just a ritual, but in Madras he finds out that it is
brahminically (Brahmins are upper class Hindus) more
correct than plates. He found out that, people in India
felt the need to hold on to smaller ideas of who and what
they were and found stability in the smaller groupings of
region, clan, caste, family, much like in Trinidad where
people held on, tightly to their community to feel a sense
of belonging. It is a mildly satirical composition, full of
sardonic wit, but behind this facade, comes a feeling of
love for the land and its people.
The individuals who represent the ?Million Mutinies? were
given faces and identities in Naipaul?s descriptive
narrative. He tells us about their revolt, sometimes
silent, sometimes raucous.
The unpredictable Indian scenario is has been very
meticulously captured in this striking, comprehensive, and
unforgettable book.

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