In this book the author discusses the subject of human development in India's post-independent social, economic, and political context. He draws our attention to the subject of man and the problem of inter-human relationship, advocating service as the finest form of inter-human relationship.
I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
-Swami Vivekananda