Bangalore: Nobel laureate and renowned writer Sir V S Naipaul is disturbed by the "technological civilisation" that the world is currently witnessing and terms it shameful.

Naipaul said technological civilisation with "low popular culture" is disturbing and commented: "one wonders how things can stand."

"High technological civilisation with low culture; it's shameful to us," he said responding to questions from audience after a reading from his latest book "Magic Seeds".

"Fed on comic strips...but high tools," remarked the author, who has published 14 novels and 13 works of non-fiction in the last 50 years.

The 72-year-old Trinidadian of Indian ancestry said he won't write auto-biography, maintaining that it's little too late and he has forgotten lot of details. And also that he is not the one who wants to show he can also write one.

Naipaul, who won the Nobel prize in literature in 2001, said he faced the "reality of death" and would accept it with "utmost pleasure".

He also said that "at certain times, certain obsessions" are needed and without them, life would be incomplete.