'Where does the real India reside? asks the author, for India is a land of enormous disparities and contradictions. In 1916, his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi denounced before an august assembly at Varanasi the existence of pomp and wealth amidst degrading penury, filth around holy places, and the domination of a foreign language over native tongues. He also pronounced other unpalatable truths.

This lecture contains an eloquent description of the same contradictions, existing even today all over India, because the same attitudes of callousness and cruelty continue. But there is also an aquifer of goodness that it is essentially Indian, which must be tapped and never allowed to run dry.

'What we are, the world is.' Here is a compelling call to every Indian to tap that goodness and be what is needed for the redemption of the nation.