"It has had a calamitous effect on converted……" — V.S. Naipaul
"It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'."
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115 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
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