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 to 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 on Ayodhya
Appendix V: Speech by L.K. Advani at a function organised
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 Acronyms
Index