This biographical memoir provides an analytical narrative of the life and works of an educator and academician who draws profound influence from the socio-economic background he grew up in and the life he led as one of the leading academic administrators in India.
This biographical account situates the unfolding of the life of an educator in varied socio-economic contexts. It is not just a narrative of how an individual evolves but also analyses how a particular mindset develops by being dialectically entwined with the milieu in which one passes different stages of their life. At one level, it is a historical narrative since it deals with a particular period of human history critical to the growth of a specific individual. At another, it provides ethnographic inputs to those who want to understand the peculiarities of the twentieth century. It offers first-hand accounts of the nature of transformative politics which evolved at the behest of Naxalites in India; it also has obvious twists and turns as the individual is exposed to a world beyond India. So, the narrative is individualistic, and it has elements of influences acquired through exposure to an alien socio-cultural milieu.
Apart from its analytical importance, this memoir provides a very realistic assessment of Indias education system through the lens of an educator and an academician.
