On his return to India Jagat Murari spent several years at the Films Division in Bombay. While very few readers would have seen or remembered his films, this section of the book introduces a major theme of the book, his problems with his bureaucratic superiors.
Subsequent chapters present biographical and intellectual portraits of seminal figures in modern psychology, including Freud, Adler, Jung, Erikson, Maslow, Rogers, Piaget, Bandura, William James, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Shruthi Rao and Meera Iyer in their India in Triangles have explained in easy-to-understand language the main principles of triangulation, and how this method was used for mapping the Indian subcontinent during the nineteenth century.
The first chapter details Devaki’s family, her daily duties during vacation days, she being a supporting daughter for her parents, nursing her ailing father and helping her mother with household chores. The author also through interactions between Devaki and her grandmother outlines the gender roles as decided within the families and how Devaki as a young educated girl questioned some of them.
The text is divided into four sections—an untitled Introduction, Nature and Society, People, and Environment. Four boxes are distributed through the text to highlight some aspects of the area, with 3 or 4 pages of photos at the end. A few highlighted questions are spread through the text.
The clear-cut lines between the colours—mainly the earth colours of ochre, the rich blue of the precious stone lapis lazuli, and cyan, which is the light bluish-green associated with water and the sky—harmonize to create a landscape in the mind that goes beyond division and separation.