| SL.NO | Chapter No |
| Chapter 1 | Of Studies |
| Chapter 2 | The Secret of Work |
| Chapter 3 | JC Bose |
| Chapter 4 | In Celebration of Being Alive |
| Chapter 5 | Learning from the West |
| SL.NO | Chapter No |
| Poem 1 | On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three |
| Poem 2 | The Tables Turned |
| Poem 3 | The Builders |
| Poem 4 | Any Woman |
| Poem 5 | A Challenge to Fate |