Chandigarh’s Mr Versatility  (Hardcover, Nonika Singh)

Life and Work of Architect-Professor Dr SS Bhatti is a marvellous Biography as an Excerpted Story featuring only eight of 55 disciplines which he has developed. His oeuvre conjures up mesmerizing kaleidoscopic images of what he calls Holistic Humanism. This beautiful literary creation is a make-believe world of art, social comment, educative pointers, and spiritual insights to create in the reader's mind soul-stirring longings for a wholesome self-expression of personal experience in which Humanity emerges as the Essence of Man. While ardent admirers keep wondering how one can make an enormous contribution to enrich an-otherwise drab life, Dr Bhatti coolly avers that the magic springs from India's Great Tradition that provides illimitable food for his body, mind, and soul. Furthermore, Guru Nanak as his path-finder has inspired him to make pursuit of excellence a habit of the mind. Therefore, for him, B-H-A-R-A-T spells Beauty and bounty, Holistic Humanism, inner Awakening, uncompromising Rationality, All-inclusiveness, and inalienable Truth.