Phase One: 1. Triumph of Freedom, Tragedy of Partition. 2. Sindh and India: An Unbreakable Bond. 3. My First Twenty years in Sindh. 4. Partition: Who was Responsible? Phase Two: 1. Migration from Sindh of Rajasthan. 2. My work as a RSS Pracharak. 3. Mahatma Gandhi’s Tragic Assassination. 4. Dr Mookerjee and formation of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. 5. The Thrill of participating in the first General Elections. Phase Three: 1. Moving from Rajasthan to Delhi. 2. The Organiser years. 3. The Bliss of Family Life. 4. My Entry into the Delhi Metropolitan Council. 5. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya. 6. The Beginning of My Parliamentary Career. 7. The Journey from kanpur to kanpur. 8. Two Events that Changed history. 9. Emergency: Democracy imprisoned. Phase Four: 1. The End of the Darkest period in India’s History. 2. My Stint in the information & broadcasting Ministry. 3. The People betrayed: The Fall of the Janata Government; Return of Indira Gandhi. 4. The Lotus Blooms. 5. The 1980s: The BJP’s Phoenix-Like Rise. 6. The Ayodhya Movement. 7. The Trauma and triumph of Punjab. 8. The Entry and Exit of two Prime Ministers in two years. 9. Five years of P.V. Narasimha Rao’s Government. 10. Three Prime Ministers in two Years. 11. The Swarna Jayanti Rath yatra: A Patriotic Pilgrimage. Phase Five: 1. The Beginning of a new era. 2. The Kargil War: A Decisive Victory for India. 3. The NDA Returns to power. 4. Review of the working of the Indian Constitution. 5. At the Helm of the Home Ministry. 6. Cross-Border terrorism. 7. Pakistan’s proxy War. 8. Dealing with the Kashmir Issue. 9. Vajpayee-Musharraf Summit in Agra. 10. Securing Assam and the North-East for the Future. 11. Naxalism, other Challenges and initiatives. 12. Communal Violence in Gujarat: Propaganda Versus Reality. 13. Defeat in Polls, Turmoil in the party. 14. My Pakistan Yatra. 15. ‘I have no Regrets. 16. Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A Statesman with a poetic soul. 17. Reminiscences and Reflections. 18. In Pursuit of Meaning and happiness in Life. Epilogue, Appendices, Appendix I: Free India’s Message to the World by Maharshi Aurobindo. Appendix II: Swami Vivekananda and the Future of India by Swami Ranganathananda. Appendix III: A Tale of two Emergencies by L.K. Advani. Appendix IV: BJP’s Palampur Resolution in Ayodhya. Appendix V: Speech by L.K. Advani at a Function organized by the Karachi Council on Foreign Relations, Economic Affairs & Law, June 2005. Appendix VI: Statement by L.K. Advani at the BJP’s National Executive Meet, Chennai, 18-19 September 2005. References, Glossary, List of Acronmys, Index.

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