Sir — VS Naipaul was a great writer. His demise is a huge loss to the world of literature. Besides being an outstanding novelist, he was an intellectual, orator, narrator and a humorist.
In short, he was a versatile and unparalleled personality. Recipient of numerous honours, including the Man Booker Prize in 1971 and a knighthood for services to literature in 1990, Naipaul was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2001. There is a lot of lessons that the present generation can draw from his life.