The Academy is gearing up for Aarmabh 2020 in which a galaxy of thought leaders are sharing their views on India @ 100, culminating in the PM's interaction with OT's from the Statue of Unity on 31st October, the birthday of Sardar Patel, the Patron Saint of Indian civil services
The Academy would like to place on record that, no new Covid positive case has been reported amongst the Officer Trainees from November 24. The health of all Covid positive Officer Trainees is stable and is being monitored.
Remote areas come with daunting challenges. To bridge the knowledge gap & to inculcate habit of reading among students & public we are trying to establish a Library at Pungro Nagaland.
Help us build it ! By sending books for our Library
@MinOfCultureGoI
@abhish18
@IASassociation
Dr Jitendra Singh,Hon'ble MoS , PP, PMO and DONER released ''Lesser Known Heroes of the Freedom Movement'' by the officer Trainees of the 94th Foundation Course on the occasion of the 61st Foundation Day of the Academy. Read the E-Book at
@DrJitendraSingh
As a former DM of Murshidabad, I pay my homage to former
#PresidentPranabMukherjee
, who played a salient role in getting the MDI and AMU to open their centers in the district. He had extended his support for the SAARC Agri-meet as Foreign Minister. We will miss him!
A hundred years ago,
#Mysore
became the first state in India to announce reservations in civil services on the basis of domicile and caste. Read on about the steps taken by the Wadiyar dynasty to establish Mysore as an Inclusive state .
@mpostdigital
Extracts from my forthcoming book “MAPPING THE INDIAN STATES : Aspirations, Assertions & Adjustments” will be published in the Sunday edition (17/5) of
#MilleniumPost
Read about the report of the Linguistic States commision appointed by the Constituent Assembly ,as well as SRC
Was a real pleasure visiting the
@dsvvofficial
interacting with
@DrChinmayP
and his students, and participating in the Yagna where the shlokas were read by women priests. What an empowering experience.. also visited the Centre for Baltic studies..
@LBSNAA_Official
Let me take you on a journey across India through her changing maps - at the time of Independence, the Dominion of India had nine provinces and 562 princely states. Bharat has 28 states and 8 union territories -
Please find enclosed the fifteenth column on the
#Partitions
of
#Punjab
in the series Mapping the Indian States : Aspirations, Assertions and Adjustments:
In compliance with the containment notifications of the District Administration. As per the guidelines of the DM Act, Officer Trainees(OTs) have been put under room isolation and all training activities have been moved online.
In Part VI, we analyse the impact of the States Reorganisation Committee (
#SRC
) report
on the map of India as it was printed in 1956 by Survey of
#India
.
#milleniumpost
The shortlist of the PFC VoW Awards 2020 was announced over Aajtak Radio by Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan , Dr Jitendra Singh, ICCR Chief Dr Vinay Sahasrabudhe and RJ of VoW Connect Nidhi Moulik last evening
This column pays a tribute to the key players in the making of modern Karnataka. It also highlights how Hanumanthiah brought in the development discourse to counter those who were not keen to expand the frontiers of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore
@DrJitendraSingh
@DoPTGoI
Dr Jitendra Singh has been taking keen interest in the training activities , and his review meetings have inspired the faculty to put in he best efforts! He addressed this batch on the occasion of his visit to the Diamond Jubilee celebrations last year
Together with CSOI and Business World,
#Valley_of_Words
is reviving the Books & Authors series in an online mode with Meeta and Rajivlochan's book Making India Great Again with Shailesh Pathak and Anurag Batra as discussants and yours truly as the Moderator.
Between the 1956 and the 1958 editions of the
#Survey_of_India
maps the noticeable change is the incorporation of the
#metric_system
, in addition to miles, which had hitherto been the measure of the land.
Salute to young
#IAS
officer
#RitikaJindal
for breaking age old parochial tradition by performing 'havan' at Shalooni temple, Solan HP. She also taught lessons of equality to priests, others. This gutsy officer shows us true spirit of
#Dussehra
.
@jairamthakurbjp
@IASassociation
My colleague Special Director Arti Ahuja , who is joining as Additional Secretary
#Health
has presented me
#Forest
lanterns : A collection of Essays edited by Virginius Xaxa . Her article on
#PVTGs
is worthy of commendation!
This week's column is not just about
#Meghalaya
: it is also about the inability of
#Assam
's political leadership to inspire confidence among the ethnic and linguistic minorities in the state.
@mpostdigital
This week’s column takes you on a journey to
#Tripura
, often described as an island in
#Bangladesh
, and about the restoration of communication links, which will alter the destiny of the state, for the better, besides integrating the
#NorthEast
into a
#powerful_economic_zone
!
The Mizos were quite keen to be a part of
#India
, but were eager to have a territorial space independent of
#Assam
. Read more about this in
@mpostdigital
In this column , we discuss the
#Portuguese
intransigence, as well as
#India
’s reluctance to ‘merge’ the Portuguese territories by force , even though there was much
popular ferment in
#Goa
for
#integration_with_India
.
With the passage of the Thirty Sixth Constitutional Amendment Act in 1975, the subjects of
#Sikkim
became full fledged citizens of
#India
with equal rights and entitlements.
@mpostdigital
Delighted to share the news that Shailesh Pathak is joining as the Director of the Indian School of Public Policy . An avid reader , discussant and columnist, he has been associated with Valley of Words -and we are now looking for a closer collaboration
Today’s interview brings to you a conversation with the Advisor for the Military History and Strategy Vertical of VoW, Shiv Kunal Verma. At the end, we read from Anit Mukherjee’s The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India.
The column in
@mpostdigital
dwells on the common and the particular in the states of
#Manipur
and
#Tripura
, as well as the processes of ethnic assertions and state formation besides remembering
#Rani_Gaidinliu
who led the resistance against the British,
very good to note that Russia too has acknowledged the contribution of Indian soldiers to the Allied victory ..kudos to Col DPK Pillay for sharing this information
Key takeaways-recog world should've united early on. instead they chose to appease&were decimated 1 by 1 by Nazis. Truly the
@RusEmbIndia
faced ¾ of nazi power for Lebensraum yet gave them totally underplayed first defeat.Relevance of history lessons today discsn with
@NKudashev
THE HERO WHO FED TEN MILLION via
@wordpressdotcom
Mr Jha led from the front , and was the main pillar of the CARUNA Civil Services platform to collaborate on COVID mitigation strategies ..
The formation of
#Chhattisgarh
marked a rare bi partisan consensus on state formation. Read this in the two articles on the creation of this state
@mpostdigital
1.
2.
Sharing the Young Adults Longlist . This genre is growing in popularity with each passing year . Congratulations to Jugal Hansraj, Tanushree Podder, Neha Sinha, Kalpish Ratna,Meera Naidu, Anvita Abbi,Somi Roy,Bijal Vaccharjani and Shweta Taneja.
This is also the time to look at our own cartographic policy with respect to PRC . Till 1954, the region called Tibet was now called China and in the 1954, 1956 and 1958 maps of the Survey of India , there was no reference to Tibet at all
For a start let's open up the issue of the Shaksgam Valley with China. After the 1962 War, Ayub realizing that the Chinese would take it either way quietly 'leased' it to the PRC. Wording of the lease itself acknowledges it to be Indian territory. Selling stolen goods is a crime!
Valley of Words
@vowlitfest
& NDLI
@NDLIndia
present Afternoons with an Author
Pramod Kapoor
@pramodkapoor
“1946 - Last War of Independence Royal Indian Navy Mutiny’ in conversation with Sandeep Unnithan
@SandeepUnnithan
27th February from 3 - 4 PM
Sunday’s episode features an interview of educationist and writer Mr JP Pandey, Director, HRD Ministry. The book discussed is Viswanathan Anand and Susan Ninan’s Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a Champion’s Life.
The
@vowlitfest
is now a pan India festival with distinct knowledge verticals across 5 cities from 9th Oct - 21st Nov: MHS (USI) in New Delhi, Hindi & English Literature at Baroda & Kolkata respectively, Writings for Young Adults at Hyderabad & the History of Science at Dehradun!
The
@vowlitfest
makes its way South to the city of Nizam: ‘Hyderabad.’ A grand welcome awaits our authors for two verticals: Writing for Young Adults and Translations from Regional Languages.
YouTube Link:
Reading
#MaazBinBalal
’s translation of The Sixth River , originally written as a journal in Urdu by Ram Lal Bhatia urf
#FikrTaunsvi
, a first person account of the mayhem and death that enveloped
#Lahore
in the aftermath of the
#Partition
...
Forwarding the link to the
#VoWConnect
conversation with Mamta Kiran, multi genre poet and author followed by a discussion of the book “
#JiyaJale
: The Stories of Songs” by
#Gulzar
in conversation with
#NasreenMunniKabir
.
Team
@vowlitfest
extends heartfelt tribute to late
#NarendraKohli
the doyen of Hindi literature, whose latest offering Sarmishta is long-listed for the PFC-VoW 2021 Award Hindi Fiction Longlist. His ten volume transcreation of Mahabharat as Mahasamar was my personal favourite.
SRC had as its members S Fazl Ali , K M Pannikar and HN Kunzru . Kunzru is the ONLY person to have refused the Bharat Ratna as he had opposed it in the Constituent Assembly