On the Loom of Time portrays the life & times of Shiva Kant Jha who has acted & thought in many worlds. It resembles in its structure, the holy vilvapatra that is offered to Lord Shiva: It is a triplet of 'the Fragrant Years', 'A Cog in the Machine' & 'Illusion & Reality'...

Contents:

Book - I : The Fragrant Years (From 1937-1964)

1. My Land, My People.
2. My Ancestors.
3. Profile of My Father.
4. Portrait of My Mother.
5. My Birth : My Odyssey thus began.
6. My Childhood Days : The Halcyon Years.
7. My Adolescence: On Swimming through the Rainbow
8. The Flowering of Mind : My Academic World.

Book - II : A Cog in the Machine (From 1964-1998)

1. On Joining Civil Services.
2. My First Innings at Patna : Part - I.
3. My First Innings at Patna : Part - II.
4. Patna : My Second Ennings.
5. Plight of our Public Administration - Extracts From the Shah Commission of Inquiry Report.
6. My Years at Nagpur.
7. My Phases in Calcutta, noe kolkata
8. My Reflections on the Income Tax Law.
9. Reflections On Income Tax Administration
10. On My Retirement.

Book - III : Illusion & Reality (From 1998-2011)

1. Understanding the imageries at the Supreme Court of India.
2. My Reflections On Krishna & the Galaxy of the Great.
3. Our Constitution at Work.
4. Our Democratic Republic & its great Institutions.
5. The Profile of a PIL in Revenue Matters.
6. Our worldview & trends of our times.
7. Certain Stories as my 'Objective Correlatives'.
8. The Realm of Darkness : The Triumph of Corporatocracy.
9. Veenapani - My Wife.
10. Reflections on my life's Sonnet in this closing Chapter.