crisis of modern civilisation

every one saying now a days that all is not well with the modern civilisation. That is neither here nor there. The question is : has it failed? where has it failed? why? The intellectual has not applied his mind to this great question. He has taken things for granted. This has been my fate and fate of millions of my countrymen and the idealists all over the world. In his book crisis of modern civilisation Mr. P.V.Kuriantry to reply to the fore going questions. H has made masterly survey of the five to six centuries of modern European history,and analysed its most silent events, often going to their roots. what he finds is that the modern civilisation is no doubt a grand show .Its accomplishments are near miraculous. Its achievement., however,is nil. Judging from the point of view of the interests of mankid as awhole , it has not been able to solve a single problem that besets humanity. The problems of hunger, lack of housing, lack of peaceand security for the ordinary man, and specialythose of women,are nowhere vear solution.some of these problems ,like hunger, have as a matter of fact become worse,and the number of people affecyed is ever increasing.Can anybody refute the auther's statement that compares to earlier civilisations more people are underfed in the present world?