The product of an 8-year-long oral history project, this hardcover book features 140 black-and-white photographs, with accompanying histories, of 400 elderly people all over India. Although some of these people are famous or accomplished, many are ordinary people commenting on what it means to be elderly in India. The issues and perspectives highlighted by these stories are also familiar on a universal level. Each story is accompanied by a large-format environmental photographic portrait of the person and a biographical note.

The book features a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.