"A passionate account of an educational experiment carried out in the1950s in a school established in a forest in Orissa. Written in the formof letters to a newspaper, it records the joys and difficulties accompanyingthe founding of an ideal in a world rotten with prejudice, mired inbureaucratic apathy and burdened with a mindset that is suspicious ofany kind of change. The experiment continued for four years, but itssignificance continues to be relevant as it dramatizes the courage to bedifferent and the passion to transform human fate through education"