This special issue of Rubber Bond records in glimpses the imprint of an era at the point of its passing. The era of Tan Sri Sekhar’s stewardship of the MRRDB is replete with moment that characterises the life-long drama of personal endeavour and achievement. It interlaces the fortunes of Natural Rubber, its moment of singular glory at the turn of the century, its threatened future from pretenders and detractors after World War II and its triumph in reestablishing itself as the sole inimitable elastomer, par excellence in mid 1960s.