A deeply pessimistic work, An Area of Darkness conveys the acute sense of disillusionment which the author experiences on his first visit to his ancestral land. The book was immediately banned in India for its "negative portrayal of India and its people". Nissim Ezekiel wrote the 1984 essay " Naipaul's India and Mine " as a reply to Naipaul's An Area of Darkness  .
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