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Abstract Vidyadhara Suraj Prakash Naipaul belongs to the Indian Soil. He s deeply conscious of his Indian (Aryan) ancestors migrating to Trinidad (West India) as indentured labourers. Naipaul writings dealt with cultural confusion of the third world and the problem of the outsider, a picture of his own experience as an Indian in the West-Indies. Naipaul is the product of a distinct combination of circumstances. He found the squalor of Trinidad stifling to his spirit. In his famous book "An Area of darkness" he tries rediscover his roots, his visit to Trinidad had merely vindicated an early childhood to distance himself from the island. His An Area of Darkness (1864) is like a personal testament wherein he tries to rediscover his roots, though he lambastes Indians in the Process. Later work, India: A Wounded Civilization (1977) presents a contrasting picture. In place lambastes, sardonic and a malicious temper there is genuine concern and a keen desire to know the civilization of his forefathers. At times his in born prejudice hampers his study of India. Naipaul raises the pertinent question of rootlessness and existential crisis of identity. He is acknowledged throughout the world as a writer of diaspora because his creative domain reflects the spirit of cult and cultures. He himself can be evaluated of Trinidadian by birth, Indian Brahmin by descent and Western by education and attitude. The creative cosmos of Naipaul offers an existential paradigm which suggests the problem of rootlessness and his characters try their best to locate roots respect in this dislocated and displaced humanity. Naipaul's "An area of Darkness" seems to be modern saga of disgust and despair in the course of seeking the self and the society.