This book, written partly between the two world wars and partly towards the end of the second, when freedom was on the horizon, outlines how India ought to have developed.
Many issues he touches, many fallacies of the modern way he sees, many solutions to problems that he suggests are still equally valid today.
While i feel that we have come to a point of no return with respect to a lot of things he talks about, it is necessary to understand that these problems that we see today had been foreseen long ago and solutions in form of alternate way of life given. Now it is up to us to reconcile the two and find a less harmful way of life for us and future. This is ofcourse if you believe in sustainability and permanence and non-violence.