This book is a personal memoir which covers many seldom tackled topics like hygiene, sanitation, environment and water as well as recounts, through personal experiences, historical events or general conditions in Assam, India and Vietnam starting from the 1940s in pre-independence India till 2018. Very few persons in this world could have the luck or misfortune to experience an era of ignorance, poverty, lack of knowledge, lack of support, deprivation from medical facilities and also living in areas nearly isolated. And yet coming out of that situation to face the challenges of life and achieve the highest quality of education and enlightenment, to serve the United Nations as an International Civil Servant, that too on a subject most neglected and difficult to solve in this world, which the writer, Dr. Binoy Kumar Das, has passed through.The readers will get the fascinating details of village life, poverty, ignorance, destruction of the environment etc. One will also travel through the sequence of development during different eras, both economic and political in India, United Kingdom and in Vietnam, which could turn out to be a treasure of knowledge for some.The book deals with hygiene and sanitation, subjects very little known and cared for by the people worldwide, both educated and uneducated, or by governments in developing countries looking to improve people's basic quality of life.The book will remain a source of history on the development and promotion of basic sanitation, hygiene, water supply and protection of the environment in the 20th century.