Nobel prize winning author Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was as hard on himself as on others.
- Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand
Apartheid was to officially end in 1994. So was the fashion of wearing hats as the formalities of business, church and leisure gave way to the informality of urban equality.
India has learned valuable lessons about language and bodies of knowledge that could be applied in South Africa’s universities.
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