Dr Awdhesh Singh is an engineer from Indian Institute of Technology holding PhD in the area of e-governance. He took voluntary retirement from Indian Revenue Service after twenty-five years of service to pursue his interest in writing. His earlier books Practising Spiritual Intelligence for Innovation, Leadership and Happiness and The Secret Red Book of Leadership have been in the bestseller list in India. He is one of the world's most popular writers on Quora with over five million views per month.

"A book with a profound historical perspective, which enriches the analysis and encourages to show great ambitions for the country. -Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France

Anyone invested in the future of democracy and the amelioration of the human estate, will be moved by Dr Kumar’s compelling plea that political process be guided by an unwavering moral compass. -Lou Marinoff, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies, The City College of New York

The book is a must-read for students of politics, philosophy and history. A tour de force indeed! -Lord Karan Billimoria, CBE DL, Member, House of Lords

The book illuminates an astonishing range of the issues with perceptiveness and wisdom, informed by an increasingly rare sense of values. We need more leaders like him. -KS Bajpai, former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, former Indian Ambassador to Pakistan, China and the United States of America

Dr Ashwani Kumar distils a rich political and juristic life. The world of law, power, and justice will surely improve if all our actors were as reflective as the author. -Prof Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick and University of Delhi

The author poses in this highly readable book the question: can we invest our politics with dignity and anchor it in high principle? Nothing is quite as important to India’s democratic future as the answer to this question. -Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound and The Difficulty of Being Good."