This audiobook challenges the notion that poorer countries lack environmental consciousness, revealing a prehistory of the global environmental movement in India. It highlights ten Indian thinkers who wrote presciently about environmental dangers, developing a concept of "livelihood environmentalism" that contrasts with affluent world perspectives.

This audiobook chronicles Mahatma Gandhi's formative years, from his birth through his extensive legal and organizing work in South Africa. Author Ramachandra Guha utilizes newly unearthed documents to reveal how these experiences profoundly shaped Gandhi's evolution into a political thinker, social reformer, and beloved leader.