✨ Beyond the pages Meet Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, author of Swallowing the Sun (Winner of the REC-VoW Book Awards 2025, English Fiction) with Moderator Manoj Barthwal at VoW 2025! 🤝 Institutional Partners: Doon University, SGRRU 📍 25–26 Oct | Hotel Madhuban, Dehradun

How much change can a primary school teacher bring to a village depends on her keen involvement with her students - and through them to the entire community . Teachers , especially primary school teachers leave a lasting impression on the minds of young children . Thank you Ms

The Valley of Words has been supporting translations from the Bhashas of Bharat into Hindi and English for the last eight years . This book also connects with the theme of the festival, as the protagonist comes to Devbhoomi Uttarakhand for her spiritual salvation.

This is indeed the future . Have discussed this at length in my paper Produce in India , Feed the World . India can take leadership in this sector

Looking forward to this synergistic partnership !

ITI NRITYA, A Celebration of Classical Dance with Dhanashree Joglekar @ VoW 2025! Curated by: Shalini Rao Chair: Soneyaa Kumar Guest of Honour: Sharmila Bhartari Institutional Partners: The Montessori School & Him Jyoti School 🎟️ Sponsored by: DPS Vikasnagar

ITI NRITYA, A Celebration of Classical Dance with Lakshman Vinayak @ VoW 2025! Curated by: Shalini Rao Guest of Honour: Sharmila Bhartari Chair: Soneyaa Kumar Institutional Partners: The Montessori School & Him Jyoti School 🎟️ Sponsored by: DPS Vikasnagar

Lakshman Vinayak, a top young male Bharatanatyam exponent in India, graces this edition of VoW. He is also one of the two Iti Nriya winners this year.

Dhanashree's dance is mesmerizing . VoW is privileged to have her as one of our winners for this season of Iti Nritya. Iti Nritya is a competitive category for young persons between the ages of 18-25 in all the eight classical dance forms of Bharat

✈️ Catch Nitin Gairola in conversation with Ratna Manucha at VoW 2025! 🤝 Institutional Partners: Him Jyoti School 📍 25–26 Oct | Hotel Madhuban, Dehradun

Today at the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival in Kasauli, P. Chidambaram spoke with a tone that was not only insensitive, but almost inflammatory. To hear him dilute responsibility for Operation Blue Star and the November 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom felt like someone tearing open our

Attended the launch of Dolly Dabral's tenth book Pathron Ke Beech yesterday . A riveting story about a young widow from an impoverished zamindar's household daring to fall in love with a Dalit plumber from the same village.

Abhinav Kumar's column in the Indian Express today on the imperative need of having robust institutions could not have been more timely . We have the technology to plug the gap in the examination system.

Indeed a terrible human tragedy ...

Sharing a very meaningful conversation on 'books' with Col Anurag Awasthi . He was able to draw out the best from me - and I look forward to his presence at the signature event of VoW . We will be working with his team for the tenth and the subsequent editions of VoW

“In Uttarakhand, literature in hill languages is still nascent. There are famous authors from the hills – Leela Dhar Jagudi, Namita Gokhale , Stephen Alter – and a few independent presses in Dehradun” writes Sanjeev Chopra in scroll.in/article/108730… via Scroll.in

The book is an enquiry about the question that bothers many of us i.e Why is India dirty ? I sincerely hope both the question and this book to become obsolete in my lifetime. Sukhada thank you very much for so ardently spreading the message ✊🙏😊

Looking forward to an intellectually stimulating weekend !

'Wakhan Corridor — India’s forgotten 106-km border with Afghanistan is back in play' Sanjeev Chopra Sanjeev Chopra, former IAS officer, writes #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/wakhan…