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Bhabani Charan Mukherji, (1902-1993) belonged to a small village Uchkaran in West Bengal.  He had his schooling in Bolpur near the famous University of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, built by Sri Rabindranath Tagore.  Since childhood he was greatly influenced by the poems and songs of Tagore.  As a schoolboy he was often found visiting the Visva-Bharati campus, listening to the distant flute of the shepherds.  He graduated with first class honours in English Language and Literature from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1922.  In December 1925, the author became a full-fledged member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS).  His first posting was as Assistant Magistrate and Collector in Shahabad, a district in Bihar under the District Magistrate and Collector, Mr. E.C. Ansorge, a British member of the ICS.  The author's career could be divided into two distinct parts; normal duties of general administration as District Officer, Commissioner and various Secretarial appointments culminating lastly as Chief Secretary of Orissa before the independence of India.  From December 1949 till his retirement in September 1965he organized and amalgamated all the private airlines into a common airline, known as Indian Airlines.  He organized the entire fertilizer industry in India, including the Planning and Development Department, which proved to be a great asset to the fertilizer industry.  Besides looking after the giant fertilizer industry, he relaxed in the evening with books of Sri Aurobindo whom he admired greatly.  His focus was on universal truths, the study of Vedanta always fascinated him, so in his mature age he wrote his last treatise Vedanta and Tagore where he says that Tagore's spiritual inspiration was from the ancient Vedanta.