This volume of essays, tributes and memoirs brings together Ghosh’s reflections on a host of writers and personalities as diverse as Rabindranath Tagore, Edmund Burke, Lord Byron, Rudyard Kipling, Paul Gauguin, Tughlaq, Sri Aurobindo, Subhas Chandra Bose, Subramania Bharti, Mother Teresa, Nissim Ezekiel, Girish Karnad, NamdeoDhasal and others who, through their life and work, demonstrated how passion creates possibilities of an ideal world without barriers and boundaries. In the words of the Gambian poet and former executive of World Bank, Dr. Tijan M. Sallah, Mirror from the Indus represents “Intellectual musings by a mind, broad and generous enough to see culture as the interaction of vibrant particularities—from India to Europe, from the orient to the occident… At its core is the quest for a better and freer world, united in elevating the dignity of the human and free of self-imposed fences.”