This book, enriched with rare photographs, provides deep insight into the life and achievements of Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, one of the leading scientists of his time. Describing in detail his early life and education, it narrates how he treated all the hurdles and opportunities as well as struggle and triumph in equal manner.

It also discusses at length how a fledgling nation, battling economic hardships and striving to re-establish it position in the comity of nations, managed to lay down a chain of laboratories dedicated to the branches of science, under the guidance of Dr. Bhatnagar.