Beyond Boundaries: The Inspiring Story of Super60 founder

Make children thinkers and not repositories of information, says Abhayanand

Abhayanand, a 1977 batch IPS officer, who retired as DGP Bihar, emerged as a quite, grounded yet firm on his principal's personality, whose book, as the session moderator and Indian Express's resident editor Manraj Grewal described it as a ready-recokoner for the probationers.

Abhayanand's autobiographical book "Unbounded: My Experiments with Law, Physics, Policing and Super 30"  indeed worth a read which demolishes the image of a police officer who could be so firmly entrenched in the values and the legal boundaries provided by our Constitution of India and successfully walked the talk.

Manraj Grewal very adroitly brought to the fore the personal ethos that guided Abhayanand that need to be emulated by the bureaucracy in the country, whose firm belief to only execute the law and not unleash the terror in any form, brought tremendous results in controlling law and order situation in the state.

Abhayanand shared numerous instances where he went into the mobs without any personal arms and could establish strong rapport with the agitated people and come out unscatched with positive results.

He shared the story of the success of Super 30 initiative to provide free education to rural children to prepare them for admissions into IITs, which is now having 35 centres across the country to empower the youth.

On being asked about the non-availability of the bureaucracy to the common man for redressal of their grievances, he lamented the fact saying that as servants of the people we are duty bound to listen to the citizens and respond, which can only build a good rapport with the people that also helps in keeping the law and order situation under control.

To conclude he remarked that our children in schools are being taught to be the repository of information to mug up facts whereas what they need is the ability to have critical thinking that can only help generate interest into learning and take them to greater heights in their careers.

Another session with the legal luminary the Professor Emeritus Dr Balram Gupta,  author of his autobiography "My Journey with Law and Justice", another lawyer Manish Jain in conversation brought to the fore his life's journey from being a law teacher to being the practicing lawyer, Dr Balram Gupta shared numerous interesting anecdotes from the court rooms.

Dr Balram Gupta who had the law students like Mrs Sushma Swaraj,  Dr Kiran Bedi , said that basking in the glory of such successful students make me proud and happy.

When asked about the law and literature, he remarked in his impeccable articulate style that they are not divorced from each other, and one of the biggest literature of our country is the Constitution of India, which is a living literary document and a way of life for the citizens.

Literati concluded with engaging Punjabi session, "Itihaas de Warqean Chon", moderated by Raavi Pandher, Jasvinder Kaur author of "Influences of British Raj on the Attire and Textiles of Punjab":, and Sunaini Guleria Sharma, a mid generation musician and a cultural conservationist, with a sensitive poet of Panjabi, Urdu and Hindi Jatin Salwan.

Though the conversation revolved around the lost heritage, Jatin Salwan pointed out the growing loss of Panjabi language and literature shows the biggest decline of our cultural values. Explaining the title of his recent book of Panjabi poetry, 'Phuri' he remarked that many do not know the meaning of this and many other Panjabi words that reflected the values and culture of our society, which unfortunately is vanishing.

Grand daughter of legendary Surinder Kaur and daughter of Dolly Guleria, Sunaini Guleria Sharma, recalled her return from USA back to India just to immerse herself and contribute to the revival of our lost culture, the music and songs.

Jasvinder Kaur provided an analysis of many lost traditional attires and handicrafts that have been influenced by the British and other cultures over a period of time and there is need to preserve and restore the old glory of Punjab.

 Press Release Literati 2 18dec

Beyond Boundaries: The Inspiring Story of Super60 founder

Make children thinkers and not repository of information, says Abhayanand

Abhayanand, a 1977 batch IPS officer, who retired as DGP Bihar, emerged as a quite, grounded yet firm on his principal's personality, whose book, as the session moderator and Indian Express's resident editor Manraj Grewal described it as a ready-recokoner for the probationers.

Abhayanand's autobiographical book "Unbounded: My Experiments with Law, Physics, Policing and Super 30"  indeed worth a read which demolishes the image of a police officer who could be so firmly entrenched in the values and the legal boundaries provided by our Constitution of India and successfully walked the talk.

Manraj Grewal very adroitly brought to the fore the personal ethos that guided Abhayanand that need to be emulated by the bureaucracy in the country, whose firm belief to only execute the law and not unleash the terror in any form, brought tremendous results in controlling law and order situation in the state.

Abhayanand shared numerous instances where he went into the mobs without any personal arms and could establish strong rapport with the agitated people and come out unscatched with positive results.

He shared the story of the success of Super 30 initiative to provide free education to rural children to prepare them for admissions into IITs, which is now having 35 centres across the country to empower the youth.

On being asked about the non-availability of the bureaucracy to the common man for redressal of their grievances, he lamented the fact saying that as servants of the people we are duty bound to listen to the citizens and respond, which can only build a good rapport with the people that also helps in keeping the law and order situation under control.

To conclude he remarked that our children in schools are being taught to be the repository of information to mug up facts whereas what they need is the ability to have critical thinking that can only help generate interest into learning and take them to greater heights in their careers.

Another session with the legal luminary the Professor Emeritus Dr Balram Gupta,  author of his autobiography "My Journey with Law and Justice", another lawyer Manish Jain in conversation brought to the fore his life's journey from being a law teacher to being the practicing lawyer, Dr Balram Gupta shared numerous interesting anecdotes from the court rooms.

Dr Balram Gupta who had the law students like Mrs Sushma Swaraj,  Dr Kiran Bedi , said that basking in the glory of such successful students make me proud and happy.

When asked about the law and literature, he remarked in his impeccable articulate style that they are not divorced from each other, and one of the biggest literature of our country is the Constitution of India, which is a living literary document and a way of life for the citizens.

Literati concluded with engaging Punjabi session, "Itihaas de Warqean Chon", moderated by Raavi Pandher, Jasvinder Kaur author of "Influences of British Raj on the Attire and Textiles of Punjab":, and Sunaini Guleria Sharma, a mid generation musician and a cultural conservationist, with a sensitive poet of Panjabi, Urdu and Hindi Jatin Salwan.

Though the conversation revolved around the lost heritage, Jatin Salwan pointed out the growing loss of Panjabi language and literature shows the biggest decline of our cultural values. Explaining the title of his recent book of Panjabi poetry, 'Phuri' he remarked that many do not know the meaning of this and many other Panjabi words that reflected the values and culture of our society, which unfortunately is vanishing.

Grand daughter of legendary Surinder Kaur and daughter of Dolly Guleria, Sunaini Guleria Sharma, recalled her return from USA back to India just to immerse herself and contribute to the revival of our lost culture, the music and songs.

Jasvinder Kaur provided an analysis of many lost traditional attires and handicrafts that have been influenced by the British and other cultures over a period of time and there is need to preserve and restore the old glory of Punjab.