This book is about how the civil service, at the highest level, has grown since the first decade of our independence, as also the changes that have come about in the political style of governance of our country in the last 50 years. The successes achieved by the government, both in his state of Bihar and at the Centre in Delhi, speak of the vision, integrity and public spirit of the first generation of leaders who were also freedom fighters and had given their lives to the country.