In this book, the author, in the backdrop of his vast and varied experience, looks at the major challenges confronting the country after about six decades of her "TRYST WITH DESTINY". The analysis done indicates how these challenges have arisen, how deep rooted infirmities of the Indian state and society have remained untackled, how a leadership with a great vision and will has not emerged at various levels of public life and how the current culture of superficiality has prevented the nation from perceiving the dangers that lie ahead. But the book is not restricted to analysis alone. Nor does it limit itself to viewing the fall out of India's failed "TRYST WITH DESTINY". It offers a new architecture for reshaping this 'destiny' and looking forward to another tryst.