From 'To the Frontier' - Geoffrey Moorehouse, 1985. ' Salman Rushdie felt that India had done terrible things to Naipaul. Before coming to India, there was in Naipaul warmth, affection, a comic stance. Then he comes to India. There he rubs shoulders with the man on the street. Does not like it. He hates India, and passionately so. India made him decide he does not want to be Indian anymore. He has become nihilistic in his attitude and dimdinished as a writer and a person.' 'I like bumping into people, claims Rushdie.'
