id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5499 V. S. Naipaul - Wikipedia .html text/html 8946 1180 78 His younger brother was the writer Shiva Naipaul.[4] In the 1880s, his grandparents had migrated from India to work as indentured labourers on the sugar plantations.[5][6] In the Indian immigrant community in Trinidad, Naipaul's father became an English-language journalist, and in 1929 began contributing articles to the Trinidad Guardian.[7] In 1932, the year Naipaul was born, his father joined the staff as the Chaguanas correspondent.[8] In "A Prologue to an Autobiography" (1983), Naipaul describes how his father's reverence for writers and for the writing life spawned his own dreams and aspirations to become a writer.[9] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5499.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5499.txt