Patrick French
Articles by Patrick French
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Asia
Indian sisters are doing it for themselves
- 21 July 2011
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Since the rise of the Gandhis, political influence in India has been hereditary. But while parliament is packed with the children of the powerful, outsiders are emerging. And they’re all women.
Books
Leaving the ghetto
- 03 April 2008
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Short of money and short of food, V S Naipaul found his early life as a writer in Fifties London harsh. Then the BBC offered him a lifeline with a radio programme, Caribbean Voices. It became an important influence, but one he later felt obliged to disown
