Our way of being and the national attitude

We talk so easily of the dichotomy between developed and developing societies, without staring stark reality in the face, without confronting the differences, without active challenging of our abstract acceptance of our condition.

People of a developing society, like ours, face daunting social challenges that folks in the developed world can scarcely understand.

V. S. Naipaul’s idea that the developing society dwells in a state of unawareness of the