Since India became a Republic on 26th January 1950, the office of the President has been held by the galaxy of luminaries of that great generation that constituted the founding fathers of independent, modern India – Dr Rajendra Prasad, Dr S Radhakrishnan, Dr Zakir Hussain and their subsequent worthy successors. Any aspirant to this exalted position has to live up to the standards they set and the traditions they established in view of strengthening the democratic value and principle for a solid constitutional foundation of our country over the past six decades.Keeping that tradition continue in the chain, Pranab Mukherjee took the oath as the 13th President of the Sovereign Democratic Republic of India on 25th July, 2012. The success story of his life stands testimony to the merit and relevance of the very concept of India, and all the values that this great civilization stands for.This book on his journey from the non-descript village Mirati, West Bengal (where he is still known by nick name Poltu) to Rashtrapati Bhawan is quite unusual because his humility and simplicity is almost self-effacing and hence very little is known about his personal life, despite the fact that his monumental achievements are stupendous. He is a man with rare determination and perseverance, a person with a humble background striving to excel by the dint of sheer hard work and individual merit and his innate wisdom. He is the Chanakya of Indian economy and polity in the truest term. National and international media often brand him as a number-crunching politician, who has achieved all possible heights through his strong will and relentless efforts in his professional and political career.To be honest to all the ins and outs narrated in this book, we sifted through material available at his birthplace Mirati in West Bengal, to his student years, which stretched from his village school to Calcutta University, met his family members, teachers, friends, associates and colleagues for the first hand information and researched in political life which spans over 40 eventful years. This book will thus serve as a reference guide to all the scholars, politicians and the bureaucrats; a source of inspiration to the students and an interesting reading to a common reader.