This book is about Gandhian humanitarian view of challenges to life in a national and international scenario today. Humanity cannot survive without the twin values of truth and nonviolence even for an instant. Despite this self-evident facet of our lives, we humans are akin to go for massive and diabolical violence and ever new inventions towards creating newer weapons of mass destruction on public fronts, and in national and international politics. This is a great paradox.

Politics without these values of truth, nonviolence and judicious self-sacrifice is a perverted form of “Politics”. Politics is entirely opposed to any kind of perversion. In effect, the main task of politics is to set right all perversions and disorders. This is what people like Gandhi were doing all their lives.
Answers to present day diverse political and other dilemmas, indeed, lie in further normalisation of the role and effectiveness of values and ethics...