J.M.E. McTaggart seeks to critically expound and appraise the British philosopher's thought with respect to three principal themes of his philosophy: substance, self, and immortality. Ramesh Kumar Sharma guides the reader through the labyrinths of McTaggart's intricate arguments and defends many of McTaggart's highly unorthodox doctrines and conclusions. While doing this, Sharma draws on the works of, among others, Berkeley, Hegel, and Leibniz, and at the same time attacks numerous modern-day physicalist theories that propound mind-brain identity as against the presumed reality of the self and consciousness. This work is thus recommended both for philosophers and researchers interested in: (1) such perennial metaphysical subjects as reality, existence, possibility, the basic ontological categories of substance, qualities, and relations (universals); (2) the question of the reality of the self; (3) McTaggart's overall vision of the universe or Absolute, and his rejection of the more or less predominant view that the Absolute is God; (4) McTaggart's unique doctrine, after Plato, of the immortality of the self combined with (the self 's) pre-existence, post-existence, and plurality of lives; and (5) his extraordinary, but important, views on perception.

The story revolves around the life of a young man who came from a poor family but has strong will power to make a big success in life. Running away from home, due to circumstances he discovers path of crime. He makes his first money by blackmailing his boss about his extra marital affair. With this money, he starts a bogus finance company. He disappears with money and all blame goes to his partner. His partner commits suicide and the case closes. He then becomes a diamond merchant. He earns a big fortune by getting his business colleagues kidnapped. He gets superstitious as he finds that all his successes were coming on thirteenth day of the month. He starts doing all his major work on thirteenth day. He gets married by falling in love and has two kids.

He shifts to Delhi and starts business as a real estate developer. One day he meets a very sexy woman in party. He gets bowled over by her charm. She joins him in his business and slowly starts controlling him and his business. He passionately falls for her and decides to leave his faithful wife and kids for her. One day, he accidentally reads her mail box in computer and comes to know her real picture. He designs a perfect murder for her and commits on his lucky day. But this time his luck runs out and he is arrested as her body is discovered in most unusual circumstances.