This book is a special book from a student to his teacher, a student who is himself a teacher and an eminent animation designer in his own right. It is a book in three acts, not chapters, with layers of visuals to experience the book in the ways of seeing. The author Prakash Moorthy, the subject - R L Mistry together have made this amazing book a reality. A first effort for both, this collaboration brings out the story of one very Indian animator - R L Mistry of NID, alive and real and which touches the soul with its excruciatingly real insights into the making of an era and an truly Indian reality and proving the universal truth when one delves into one's own roots, the stories that emerge touch the same chord the world and become truly global.