Chapter 1: MV Nadkarni and Quest for Planetary Well-Being: An Introduction and an Invitation.- Part I: Quest for Planetary Well-Being: The Life and Works of MV Nadkarni.- Chapter 2: MV Nadkarni''s Economics of Well-Being.- Chapter 3: Broad Basing Process for Socio-Economic Transformation: Dialogues with MV Nadkarni.- Chapter 4: Integrating Ethics and Economics: M.V. Nadkarni and Amartya Sen.- Chapter 5: Gandhian Perspectives on Ethics in Economics: Reflections on Nadkarni''s Engagement with Gandhi.
- Chapter 6: Revelation, Interpretation, and Analysis: M.V. Nadkarni''s Engagement with the Gita.- Chapter 7: Relevance of Parisara-niti-shatakam (on Environmental Ethics) for Nepali Himalayan Environmental Dynamics and Well-Being.- Chapter 8: Life and Language Out of Balance: Ideas from Gandhi and Nadkarni for Linguistic Sarvodaya (Emancipation for All).- Part II: Further Reflections on Well-Being.- Chapter 9: Good Life, Good Society and Evolutionary Flourishing.- Chapter 10: A Cognitive Sociological Approach to a Quest for Planetary Well-Being.
- Chapter 11: On the Concept of Well-Being : Perspectives from the Sankhya and Other Sources.- Chapter 12: Reconceptualising Indic Governance and Well-Being.- Chapter 13: Planetary Health Diet to Save Planet Earth: Some Critical Comments.- Chapter 14: Planetary Well Being and the Building of the Dharma of Peace.- Chapter 15: When Economic Initiatives Combine A Sense of Social Responsibility.- Chapter 16: Finding fulfillment in later life- an essay on promoting wellbeing among older adults.- Chapter 17: Auroville: Experiments Beyond Well-Being and the Good Life towards Planetary Unity.- Chapter 18: The Cry of the Earth: Literature as a Catalyst for Sustainable Behavioural Change.
- Part III: Essays in Honor of MV Nadkarni.- Chapter 19: Industrial Pollution Control Regime for Sustainable Development of India.- Chapter 20: Climate Change and Disasters: An Indian Perspective.- Chapter 21: Economics of Waste Management and Well Being.- Chapter 22: The Plight of the Peasants, Agrarian Mobilisation, and the Movements to Reconstruct the Countryside in Liberalised India.- Chapter 23: Political and Administrative Hegemony of Left Democratic Front in Kerala in Policy Making and Policy Implementation with special reference to People''s Plan Campaign.- Chapter 24: Reimagining Traditional Local Self-Governing Institutions (TSGIs) and Its Synergies with Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Telangana State.- Chapter 25: Reimagining Development Journalism for Rural Development and Well-being: The Mediation Role of Journalism for Inclusive Development.
- Chapter 26: Inclusive Education for Overall Well-Being: Debating Nonprofit Advertising for Attaining Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 27: The Concept of Human Nature in Chanakya''s Arthashastra and Machiavelli''s The Prince.- Chapter 28: Transformational Leadership.- Chapter 29: Quantum-Complex Interplay with Axiological Value Systems of Ethics for Planetary Challenges.