The world today is in constant flux. However, rarely has the pace of change been so multidimensional; faster than ourability to adjust. Geopolitics is changing; theand wars in Europe are evolving; technology is offering newer possibilitiesevery day; climate change is makingong-term survivalook difficult; and the biology of the pandemic continues to surpriseus. None of this may be new, but their constellation is perhaps unique.While there may be new aspects, different combinations and evolving dynamics, we have the collective experience ofcenturies to delineate a path forward.Recalibrate: Changing Paradigms, by N.K. Singh with select insights by P.K. Mishra, attempts toook back in order toookforward—not because the past allows for ainear extension or extrapolation into the future, but because it offers buildingblocks with which we can be pragmatically creative in navigating the twenty-first century and beyond.