Failure of Success: The Singapore Story

What happens when a nation becomes a victim of its own success?

Singapore rose from the ashes to become a model city-state - efficient, clean, and globally admired. But behind this pristine image lies a growing silence, a culture of compliance, and a system struggling to hear its own people.

In The Failure of Success, Kannappan Chettiar - legal scholar, clean-tech inventor, and former educator who once built a $50 million enterprise - breaks the silence. With clarity and conviction, he reveals how Singapore's very success has become its greatest threat. Through real-life encounters, sharp political insight, and bold truth-telling, this book exposes:

The erosion of trust between citizens and institutions

How over-centralization is weakening innovation and free speech

The quiet exodus of thinkers, inventors, and reformers

Why fear - not prosperity - now shapes policy decisions

This is not a book of complaints. It is a call to reclaim courage. To reimagine success not as control, but as resonance - between leaders and the led, between policy and purpose.