The book explores the many constitutive values like justice, equality, selflessness, truthfulness, compassion etc. Which go into the making of integrity, and also examines their ambivalences and contradictions which coexist in the idea of integrity. It posits the individual as the moral agent who is finally responsible for diciding an act of integrity on each occasion often reconciling the ambivalence of the constitutive values in life's many problems. 'In a world suffering from wide spread negation of integrity in private and public spheres, that paralyses every public institution and diminishes existence, the book examines the ways to restore integrity and re-establish faith in this cardinal value of life. Integrity is not a mirage but a living value fundamentals to life. It is the cosmic matrix and our existential destiny. All leaders of the world and all people can resolutely make integrity a thriving way of normal life. That would make the world livable and give every make the world livable and give every individual his or her authentic selfhood. The layman's everyday judgement and action constituting his life and determining his values are at the centre of this book. It has profound implications for the society, state and democracy.