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In his “Open letter to Sir Naipaul” (October 7), Navtej Sarna rightly asks the Nobel Laureate: “Don’t tell us anymore whom you don’t like. Instead, tell us, is there anyone you like at all?” V. S. Naipaul has a penchant for courting controversies. He likes to be in the limelight by criticising others. Not so long ago, in an interview to the BBC, he criticised Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James and Ernest Hemingway. His unwarranted criticism may be dismissed as a stroke of comic relief.

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