Random Musing: Is ‘AI teacher’ Sophie a robot? Or are we? |
When VS Naipaul wrote The Area of Darkness, it was banned for its ‘anti-India’ portrayal. Perhaps the authorities of the time felt that painting an orientalist idea of India was the preserve of the white man, and VS Naipaul – by virtue of his skin colour, no matter how brilliantly he wielded Macaulay’s weapon –…