Contents;
Book I The Fragrant Years From 1937- 1964 1 My Land My People;
2 My Ancestors;
3 Profile of my Father;
4 Portrait of My Mother;
5 My Birth My odyssey thus began;
6 My Childhood Days The halcyon years;
7 My Adolescence On swimming through the rainbow;
8 The Flowering of Mind My Academic World;
Book II A Cog In The Machine From 1964-1998;
1 On Joining Civil Service;
2 My First Innings at Patna;
Part-I;
3 My First Innings at Patna
Part-II;
4 Patna My Second Innings The Fodder Scam;
5 Plight of our Public Administration Extracts from the Shah Commission of Inquiry Report;
6 My years at Nagpur;
7 My Phases in Calcutta now Kolkata;
8 My Reflections on the Income-tax Law;
9 Reflections on the Income-tax Administration;
10 On my Retirement;
Book III Illusion and Reality From 1998-2011;
1 Understanding the Imageries at the Supreme Court of India;
2 My Reflections on Krishna and the Galaxy of the Great;
3 Our Constitution at work;
4 Our Democratic Republic and its Great Institutions;
5 The Profile of a PIL in Revenue Matters;
6 Certain Stories as my ?Objective Correlatives;
7 The Realm of Darkness The Triumph of Corporatocracy;
8 Veenapani My wife;
9 Reflections on my life?s Sonnet in this Closing Chapter. Seller Inventory