Ye VS Naipaul paagal hai kyaa?

This post comes based on me seeing the cover of 'The Week'. The cover captured some statements made by Naipaul.

One said, "The Indians don't understand Gandhi". Another said "Indian writtings don't capture the true India". Can't recall the others, but all of them were along similar lines, mentioning Indians' inability to clearly understand their past, present and plan their future.

Somehow the cover immediately reminded me of the argument used by the English to rule over India in the first place in the 18th century. The argument based on skin color and saying that Indians were not fit to rule/govern themselves and therefore required the English to govern their country.

The only thing thats changed on the face of it is that mentioning skin color is a huge taboo these days. But the essence of Naipaul's writtings capture the same feelings.