Livelihoods team in its own modest way has been and continues to be involved with dissemination of knowledge in and around livelihoods. “Livelihoods” e-magazine is part of that effort. The magazine has a special place for a section called as “Focus Articles”. In the last 10 years, there are 127 monthly issues of “livelihoods”. 114 Focus articles from these issues have been selected and compiled into “Livelihoods Lens”, Common Persons’ Perspective. Due to the number of articles, the compilation is divided into two Volumes. The volumes are further classified under various loosely divided categories. Volume I has articles under sections like 7Ls (Life, Living, Livelihoods, Linkages, Leadership, Learning and Love), Deepening Democracy, Institutions and Capacity Building, Nature and Resources, Policies and Influences. Volume II is categorised as Education and Employment, Farm Livelihoods, Lives and Livelihoods of Tribals, Non Farm Livelihoods, Poor, Poverty and Reduction, Vulnerable Groups. The direction of these articles has always been to see life through the eyes of Common Person. There are many articles which discussed about the issues faced by women, children, senior citizens…Etc. Apart from these, rural lives have been explored continuously in these issues. In this context, Livelihood Framework has been an underlying current, especially in discussing Contexts, Capitals, Arrows and Continuums. These articles have not only focussed on the current and past scenario but have tried to be futuristic in many of them. In being futuristic, they have suggested solutions, skills, tools, resources and planning to address the problems. We wrote as we learnt and we learnt as we wrote these articles. The purpose of bringing them as a compilation is to have all the articles at one place. We hope you would find it useful and would like to have a copy of your own.