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Shiva Naipaul was the younger brother of novelist V. S. Naipaul . He went first to Queen's Royal College and St Mary's College in Trinidad, then emigrated to Britain where he attended University College, Oxford . He was most famous for his essays and novels describing so-called 'foreign parts'. At the age of 40, Naipaul "was found dead slumped at his desk by his son", according to Paul Theroux . After his death the '' Spectator '' established the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for "the writer best able to describe a visit to a foreign place or people...of a culture evidently alien to the writer". {Link without Title} The British Council on the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize His assertions (in the book ''Black and White'' 1980), that the CIA was involved in the Jonestown massacre call his sanity into question. Jones had set up the massacre for years prior to its unfolding. By November of 1978, Jones was running his congregants through practice mass suicide drills on a weekly basis. He was keeping a majority of the $65,000 monthly social security payments, and keeping his adherents burdened with an exhasting workload, and malnourished on a meager rice and beans substinance. The CIA didn't kill the women, children and "men" at Jonestown. James Warren Jones did. WORKS
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