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Submerged Idealism in V. S. Naipaul's Magic Seeds: An Ambivalent Evolution?

Abstract Throughout his career, V. S. Naipaul has ostensibly never been in favor of social upheavals, revolutions, or insurgencies. This paper attempts to untangle the submerged idealism by examining how Magic Seeds' protagonist, Willie Chandran, a man of intellectual inclination becomes a man of action. Magic Seeds explores an ambivalent space. At face value, it reiterates Naipaul's familiar reading of the Maoist insurgency as a doomed, foregone conclusion. At a deeper level, it voices his renewed interest, passion, and optimism in the quest for social justice for the silent peasants and tribes caught in the web of misery, despair, and subjugation. Magic Seeds offers Naipaul's musing on the quest for collective happiness with solid philosophical foundations.