Yogyathwa: Simple Access to Powerful Leadership

Preface

My earliest interactions with T. N. Seshan were when he visited Chicago for a lecture series hosted by Kellogg School of Management sometime in the early nineties. I was, quite simply, dumbstruck. The inimitable T. N. Seshan – the total submission to truth and honour, the unwavering commitment to doing the right thing, the courage to defy the most powerful in order to be just and fair – this is the stuff that heroes in mythology and novels are made of. But to behold one such person in flesh and blood who has been endowed with as much intelligence as character is indeed a rare occurrence and thus, to me, T. N. Seshan is indeed a phenomenon. As a worthy son of the soil, he has rendered exemplary service to the nation by taking the proverbial ...