V. S. Naipaul is considered to be one of the most prominent expatriate novelists having first hand colonial experience. The present novel deals with cultural crisis in postcolonial societies with an explicit account of the common complexities inborn among the marginalized societies. Naipaul’s works are commonly regarded as an implicit biography of his departure from the narrow background of the Caribbean island to the open cosmopolitan culture of the world at large. He carries three conflicting, at a time, interacting components in his personality of being a Trinidadian colonial, an English metropolitan, and a person of Indian ancestry. Naipaul delineates the Indian immigrants’ dilemma, his problems and plights in a fast changing world. In his works one can find the agony of an exile; the pangs of a man in search of meaning and identity: a daredevil who has tried to explore myths and see through fantasies. Out of his dilemma is born a rich body of writings which has enriched diaspor...

In his article, Naipaul\u27s A Bend in the River and Neo-colonialism as a Comparative Context, Haidar Eid discusses the dialectical interplay between the political import and aesthetic qualities in Naipaul\u27s novel. It contests Naipaul\u27s conclusion that Third World peoples are not genuine and authentic human beings, like Westerners. Further, Naipaul\u27s implication that political and social disorder is the unavoidable product of contemporary liberation movements, and that Africans are nothing and with no place in the world, are challenged and deconstructed. The independence of Third World countries, according to Naipaul, eliminates the last hope of resistance to ignorance, as well as the last civilizing traces of Western influence. What remains in Naipaul\u27s Africa is only greedy, consumptive desire, and backward cultural identities. Eid argues that what Naipaul offers us is a condemned and fragmented society that lacks creative potential, a black society that cannot govern ...

e term 'displacement' has a strong connection with diaspora literature that studies the experiences of pain and pleasure of the people in the diaspora. People in the diaspora do not have comfortable life. Since they are away from their homeland, it is not easy for them to get integrated into the new main stream society. Because of several variations such as language, culture, custom, religion, belief etc., they are to face di culties in the host-land. ey come across the feeling of displacement through alienation, homelessness, identity crisis etc. that are interconnected in the diaspora. Being a generation of indentured labor immigrant family, V. S. Naipaul himself has gone through such paining experiences that are indirectly expressed through the life experiences of the characters in his writing. While reading about Naipaul's life story and of Mr. Biswas in the novel A House for Mr. Biswas, it can be understood that they sound similar strongly. In the novel, Naipaul shows how Mr. Biswas more importantly along with other people as the generation of indentured labour immigrant parents in Trinidad su er from homelessness, displacement, alienation etc. is paper mainly focuses on the experiences of displacement along with homelessness, alienation etc. faced by Mr. Biswas and other characters as they are from Indian diasporic community.

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipual was born on 17th August 1932 at Chaguanas, Trinidad. He is known for his comic novels set in Trinidad. Naipaul has published more than 30 books both of fiction and nonfiction. His best known works are A House for Mr. Biswas, In a Free State and A Bend in The River. He was awarded the Booker prize in 1971 and Nobel Prize in 2001. A House for Mr. Biswas tells the story of its protagonist; he experienced a new life at every step of his life. A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), Naipaul took inspiration from childhood memories of his father. Mr. Biswas seemed fated from his birth to be a victim of circumstances and misfortune. Poverty and despondence hang out his life throughout. But he refuses to give up his ambition of owning a house and so build another during the Port of Spain phase of his life. A House as a metaphor works throughout the novel. He is known as a cosmopolitan writer. He is unhappy about the cultural and spiritual life of Trinidad, he feels disgruntle from India and in England

The writings of V.S. Naipaul deal with shifting identities, roots, homes and changing realities of migrants. The rootlessness is a prominent theme found in almost all of Naipaul’s writings .It generates from alienation brought about by exile; physical, psychological or social. He is a writer who encourages us continually to question, to write about the world with the freedom of a person with no home, no country, and no affiliations. The concept of “home” and “homelessness” has always been a recurring theme of Diaspora literature, especially, the literature of the Caribbean. The historical dislocation of the Islands combined with the cultural and ethnic diversity of the area has been instrumental to give rise to what can be referred to as a plural society. The point is clear that we have a formless, casual society with puzzled standards and the emergence of the confused, unassimilated man. The disintegrated nature of the society gives the West Indian an acute sense of “homelessness” and is best described as paradoxical since it insists on roots and rootlessness; “home” and “homelessness” at the same time. The writer describes the people who had to abandon their own countries and shifted themselves in strange places without friend with little loyalties and with the feeling that they are trespassing. In the present paper, efforts have been made to establish the motif of “home” and “homelessness”; the dilemma of the nomadic society and individual, the wanderer in space and time who can find no anchorage in Naipaul’s famous work A House for Mr. Biswas.