Contents: 1. World play of a wonder psyche (preface of the first Marathi edition). 2. Baba Amte: vision, mission and task (Foreword of the second Marathi edition). 3. The version story. I. The vision. 4. The Prelude: Semen of centuries. 5. Confessions of a Prime Minister. 6. Millenium of labour. 7. On the bank of Sweat river. 8. Adam has arision. 9. Son of the soil. 10. In praise of the condemned. 11. City of skeletons. 12. Pope, Promythius and the pill. 13. Good bye stranger. 14. The saint’s deed. 15. Hail, O’, the great commoner. 16. Gandhi: the face of an age. 17. Return of the Superman. II. The mission. 18. In the shadow of cross. 19. Eklavya: the dethumbed archer. 20. Vishwamitra: voice of my conscience. 21. Wings have no horizon. 22. Steps of revolution. 23. Colours of dusk. III. The task. 24. Towards a dream university. 25. Death of the pregnant. 26. I have not left the ship, yet! 27. The third way.

"There is all over a sort of intoxication, a challenge, a vitality in this contemplation. There is an uproar of words, images and thoughts, like simultaneously blowing of trumpets and beating of drums. These works and images are the bleeding of wounds, borne by a genius while trodding the battle field of life earnestly and buoyantly. But this blood does not merely flow bubbling. While splinting it turns into a flame. Because Baba’s experience does not stop at a sentimental sympathy or a transient sorrow. It goes into the roots of that sorrow with free reason. It searches for resurrection of the ruined man of today with the help of history, mythology, human life changing through centuries, this twentieth century, its various sciences, and the complex problems confronting him.

" Baba Amte speaks out to explain his vision of the new way, revealed to his super reason. This brave social worker is committed to his will to resurrect man physically, mentally, economically and spiritually. He throws away all rubbed and worn out coins, right from words to thoughts.

" While reading ‘Flames and Flowers’ one thing should be kept in mind that these are the utterances of experience and realisation." (jacket)