‘Thakur : A Life of Sri Ramakrishna’ is a biography of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa by Rajiv Mehrotra, an award winning documentary director and producer and the host of the talk show ‘In Conversations’ on Doordarshan. A documentary of the same title was earlier directed by Rajiv Mehrotra in association with Ramakrishna Math and is now available in DVD format . In the book – ‘Thakur: A Life of Sri Ramakrishna,’ the author explores the ‘challenge and the riddle’ presented by the great mystic who, more than a century after his death, continues to dominate secular Hindu consciousness. Sri Ramakrishna brought a new vitality not only to the practices, rituals and symbols of the Hindu heritage but also to the celebration of divinity in diverse forms, and reinforced the underlying possibility of a real harmony between all religions. It is this vision that makes him one of the great religious teachers of all time and so profoundly relevant today. Drawn by his cheerful and buoyant enthusi