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The book casts a look at 75 years of India’s development odyssey. The authors draw from across disciplines to look at development between the state, nation, society and markets. The book traces how one of the largest and most diverse countries in the world, uniquely and daringly, attempted four concurrent transformations — building a state, creating an economy, changing society and forging a sense of nationhood — under conditions of universal suffrage.

In the antiseptic corridors of a hospital in the United States, the lives of five doctors of Indian origin intersect and intertwine, bound together by the universal need to be seen, understood and remembered. As each voice rises, falters and finally finds its place, the author crafts a chorus that is both intimate and resonant. A psychiatrist by practice, the author has witnessed the complexities of human psyche and his fiction is deeply influenced by it.

Blending philosophy, personal reflection and spiritual inquiry, this book explores the timeless wisdom of Advaita, a transformative way of knowing that awakens clarity, self-reliance and true well-being. The author attempts to understand the need to think for yourself, develop practical techniques and reveals how learning to let go becomes the key to discovering what truly matters, and how thinking for oneself can open the door to inner freedom.