Bend in the River Condition:Good the ways we depend upon

the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down

A Man Booker Prize finalist

This book contains edited versions of the three IPS-Nathan Lectures he gave between September and November 2017

Every question is answered

by examining the state of Singapore today and proposing what Singapore and Singaporeans must do in order to prevent economic and social decline

Bend in the River Condition:Good the ways we depend uponFirst published in 1979, A Bend in the River is a profound and richly observed novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new. "Naipaul's