Naipaul is sui generis. But many other Indians are cast in that mould, Indians in their basic culture though their high culture is western. - Mohammad Hidayatullah

The pages of the Law Reports reflect as much his legal learning and contribution to the development of the law, as his erudition; his judgments were all written with elegance and were often infused with the appropriate literary allusion.

Where obscenity and art are mixed art must be so preponderating as to throw the obscenity into shadow.

I was never in the mood of Lord Macaulay who said – I shall retire early I am very tired– I know that life meant that one must continue to occupy his time with work.