Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Shiva Naipaul" in English language version.
One morning, thirty years after the death of my father, my telephone rang. It was my brother's wife. I asked, in the common way of courtesy, 'What news?' She said, 'Bad news, I'm afraid. Shiva's dead.' It did not surprise me. He was a drinking man, and I had seen death on his face the previous year, at the funeral of my younger sister. People there had talked about his worrying appearance. They had tried to get him to see a doctor (there were two in the family), but he had always refused. The appearance of impending death was more noticeable on him in a television appearance a few days later—so noticeable, in fact, I wondered whether the television people had not been worried by it.
