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Synopsis Bharat Ratna Shri Rajiv Gandhi has chartered a new path beckoning the nation to the 21st century. If Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Smt. Indira Gandhi laid the basis for the transformation of socio-economic structure of the country, Shri Rajiv Gandhi was creating a new India, which was on the threshold of becoming a great global power. Though he is no more with us, his dreams will continue to guide the country for all time to come. If India, today, has rated more like a modern nation in the World after Shri Rajiv Gandhi assassination, much of the credit for that belongs to the assassinated leader who played a crucial role in imparting a modern outlook to the nation during his tenure as prime Minister of India. Shri Rajiv Gandhi in his brief political career nevertheless left an indelible mark on the country's polity and governance. He inspired more confidence than any other contemporary leader in the hearts of millions of Indians. For this, Shri Rajiv Gandhi will remain in the hearts of Indian Forever. As Youngest Prime Minister of the lartest democratic country in the World, Shri Rajiv Gandhi had succeeded in bringing India into the company of a galaxy of selected advanced nations. His vision was of a progressive, modern India, untainted by the scourge of age-old poverty and illiteracy, retaining her cultural traditions and value and holding her head high in the comity of nations. Shri Rajiv Gandhi always talked of taking the country into the 21st century. He emerged as a legendary with landmark achievements in his public life in pursuit of technological advancement for improving the living standards of the people of India, especially the farmers, youth, weaker sections and women. Keeping in view the need for rural development and welfare of the farmers community, he took many revolutionary steps to strengthen Panchayati Raj Institutions as constitutional bodies. The Twenty-five Chapters in the book are written by distinguished panel of personalities. The amount of articles and remininiscenes that has been disseminated through this excellent book is testify to the accomplishments of Bharat Ratna Shri Rajiv Gandhi -as a policy maker, a politician, a visionary a reformer, a reformer, a secularist and a humanist -by distinguished parliamentarians, policy makers jurists, civil servants, administrators, academics and researchers. This lucid and comprehensive book explores the ideals and vision of Bharat Ratna Rajiv Gandhi towards his self-reliant modern India.