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The Portrait of Statesman provides a unique insight into the multi-dimensional and multilayered personality of Dr. Karan Singh who has emerged as a champion of universal values. Dr. Karan Singh's trek to transcendence has become an ongoing process. He has not only asked questions about values and truth, but has also resolutely sought for answers, so much so that in the light of his later works and development he may well be claimed as a living representative of Indian wisdom. As the Prime Minister said at a function on Dr. Karan Singh's 80th Birthday "I can think of no other Indian who has come to represent and symbolize the ethos of our great and ancient civilization than Dr. Karan Singh. He is a man of great learning, of great wisdom, of great liberalism and great humanism." While restating in contemporary idiom the eternal wisdom of Upanishads, he has developed an evolutionary worldview and articulated the need for a value-based political system and good governance structure. Synthesizing perennial values with emerging scientific advances, and recasting national priorities with emphasis on ecological and holistic technologies, he moves through evolutionary doctrines and possibilities and seeks new designs of living and the convergence of science and consciousness. The book reveals a rounded personality, a lively mind with a refreshingly positive approach to the problems that mankind faces as it draws to the second decade of 21st century. An Indian to the core, Dr. Karan Singh emerges as a citizen of the world addressing himself to the great global issues of our times.