Review: India: A Wounded Civilization

India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

1 star = Chetan Bhagat or disgusting, non-sense, waste of time. My advice don't read this book. 1 star is from my side means worst book. Author don't know anything about India. His English is good. That is the only thing this book has. Every person who have a knowledge of English language, claims to be a philosopher. This is what this book of Naipaul is! Mr. Naipaul may be a good fiction writer or non-fiction as well. But he don't anything know about India. So whole book is waste of time. I liked Just one paragraph from this book -
The turbulence in India this time hasn’t come from foreign invasion or conquest; it has been generated from within. India cannot respond in her old way, by a further retreat into archaism. Her borrowed institutions have worked like borrowed institutions; but archaic India can provide no substitutes for press, parliament, and courts. The crisis of India is not only political or economic. The larger crisis is of a wounded old civilization that has at the intellectual means to move ahead.
That is it. Other than this, this book sucks.

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