NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Patrick French, the biographer of Sir Vidia Naipaul and Francis Younghusband, and Dean of the School of Art and Sciences at Ahmedabad University, passed away on March 15 in ...

Dollar Tree is ending its short-lived and ill-fated Family Dollar experiment, offloading the discount brand for $1 billion – just a fraction of its purchase price from a decade ago. Family ...

Dollar Tree on Wednesday said it is selling Family Dollar for $1 billion to a pair of private equity firms, a decade after it bought the discount chain for more than $8 billion. In a statement ...

Dollar Tree is selling off its Family Dollar stores for about $1 billion in a move the company says strengthens both companies – and lets Dollar Tree focus on growth. Private equity firms ...

The surname, Naipaul, has almost become synonymous with Sir V.S. Naipaul, undoubtedly the most famous member of the Naipaul family. But the Naipaul family, which boasted the novelist brother-duo, ...

An address by Niala Maharaj on Saturday, during the birthday celebration for VS Naipaul at the Diego Martin ... was set in England or the US. Peach trees, picnics and very proper people seemed ...

You’d be glad to know that your father’s stories and journalism were finally published by Peepal Tree Press in 2024, titled Seepersad Naipaul, Amazing Scenes: Selected Journalism 1928-1953. Of your ...

Writer V.S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001; his younger brother Shiva Naipaul was also a well-known writer and journalist. Their father, Seepersad Naipaul, born in a ...

Foremost among the talkers was V.S. Naipaul. I have read somewhere that he was pretty much an anonymous figure at school in Trinidad but that is not how I remember him. He held forth on many ...

He hadn’t, like Naipaul, sneered at questions from students ... I waited to hear from Anna in my car, parked under the scant shade of a poui tree. I put the car windows down and watched ...

When a neighbor’s tree hangs over your property it can be a nuisance—and even cause damage. But tread carefully before you trim it. Sometimes it seems like living in a society would be much ...

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