Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Exordium
Chapter 2. Human rights conceptual and historical reflections
Chapter 3. The Sega of homo sapiens and omega of human rights
Chapter 4. Epistemological foundation and escalating emergence of human rights jurisprudence
Chapter 5. Religions, culture and human rights
Chapter 6. The United Nations and its structure: whence, whither and what hope for human rights?
Chapter 7. Human rights revisited and United Nations incarnates
Chapter 8. Columbus, Gama and colonial domination of common people's rights
Chapter 9. Human rights realities in India --Prospects of an Asian charter, other continental experiments
Chapter 10. The dimensions of the right to development as a human right
Chapter 11. Basics of judicial independence and defence of human rights
Chapter 12. Current Indian realities vis-a-vis people's human rights
Chapter 13. Liberty -- A non-negotiable value
Chapter 14. Last lecture -- The tale of ten cities
Chapter 15. A sombre supplement
Index