In searching to see if this was already posted, I found the following:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270967/posts
With the headline, "In this stunning intervention, literary colossus V.S. NAIPAUL says ISIS is now the Fourth Reich..."
He was a fabulous writer of both fiction and nonfiction. And he wrote very honestly — not a whiff of PC. His younger brother Shiva was at least as good a writer, but he died very young. VS = Vidyadhar Surajprasad
Great writer! RIP.
RIP.
Oh, too bad.