The third and concluding day of Bhopal Literature and Art Festival signed off after showing fervour of art and culture at campus of Bharat Bhavan. The final day of the event was full of literary discussions from morning till late evening at three parallel stages of Bharat Bhavan.
In the morning session at Abhirang, a discussion on book Chanakya in you, written by Radhakrishnan Pillai, along with MM Upadhyay and Tejinder Bhogal who were the moderators in the session.
“I have studied 6000 Sutras of Economics in original sanskrit. I have researched on Chanakya on public demand. I have applied the study of economics on my life personally and have experienced the change”, said the author. Pillai has already authored 12 book on Chanakya and he has five more books on Chanakya to be realised. He further shared that Sanskrit is a practical language and its root are very deep.
The next session was based on military history of the country that was documented in a book named Indo-China War-1962: The War That Wasn’t written by Shiv Kunal Verma. The session was moderated by Brigadier Sanjay Agrawal. Shiv Kunal Verma shared that this was by far the most difficult work by him wherein it took about 30 years of research by him on the defeat faced by the country during the war with China in 1962.
He said, “I had listened to the stories of 1962 war from every people around me and that it has been in my mind since my childhood. When I decided to write about this book, I went to the places where nobody from the journalism field had ever gone or visited. When you go to such places you don’t need to ask the stories from others, the ground itself narrates the ordeal on its own.”
He further said, “When I started writing this book, I used to cry on the table and tell my wife that no one would read this book. But then it’s been three years since I realised and the book has been appreciated and received well by the readers”