"The  Crusade", and autobiography of Baburao Govingrao Shirke - BGS to his myriad friends, admirers and followers also gives the biography of his life-long mission to industrialist civil engineering. While he has accomplished his mission with unique dedication, the problems and the vicissitudes, he had to face due to the unfortunate resistance of those who should have been the real torch-bearers of this technological reform, namely the civil engineering fraternity, like their other colleagues in disciplines like food agriculture, milk, oil, industry etc, make an exciting and inspiring reading, through with a tragic undertone.