If you have ever wondered about human nature, values, migrations, identities, loyalties, inequalities, dialogues & decisions, participation, cultures and their reconciliation, this book is for you. The simplest question posed across these essays is: how can we further improve human relations, as well as human development? The author opines that had the social institutions been built on the basis of economic and cultural bonds, whose functioning demands mutual trust and cooperation, human relations would have evolved more harmoniously and much faster. The need of the hour is a series of moderate to radical structural reforms so as to put our social institutions back on the track towards peace and progress in a universal spirit and in a globaliszed world.