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An Area of Darkness or An Area of Imagination

This blog post comes after a very long time. I may offer countless reasons for the same but none will be justified now because the lockdown has given ample time for introspection that nothing was or is unavoidable and no work was so urgent that I could have skipped my occasional blog post. If not any gyan or random topic I could have easily put in my book reviews which are though dwindling in number. So, the first book I completed in the lockdown was “An Area of Darkness” by Sir Vidiya S. Naipaul published in 1964. I must say that it was my bad luck that I never got opportunity to read V.S. Naipaul due to my myopic vision as I was engrossed with either UPSC CSE related books, investigative journalism or spirituality-oriented topics. This was a random and not a deliberate choice and I must accept that random choice was rewarding and more so like my pet line “Whatever happens, happens for good” and I promise that I’ll be picking more Naipaul’s from the shelves afterwards and