Book on commonman's silent contribution to freedom movement released

New Delhi, Sep 5 (UNI) Renowned journalist and author Ramsharan Joshi released the Publications Division's book titled 'Ye Karwan Hamara' here today.

The book, translated by Ms. Shashi Jain, is a collection of small inspiring stories of commonmen who silently contributed in India's freedom struggle.

Since the first war of independence in 1857 till the time when the country won freedom in 1947, youth across the religions and states participated in freedom movements. This book tells stories of their bravery and martyrdom woven around these movements.

In his remarks on the occasion, Mr Joshi said in today's market driven world, it was all the more important to make children aware of the meaning of freedom and the pain people had to bear to win it.

The function was organised by Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, as part of the ongoing 13th Delhi Book Fair. This is the Hindi translation of renowned writers Ms/s.

Surekha Panandikar, Ira Saxena and Neelima Sinha's celebrated book 'Together we Marched' also published by the Division.

Talking about the book, Ms Surekha Panandikar said that they had tried to put human values forward through incidents without preaching about them. She said children need more such books and hoped that the Division would publish more of them, especially when the country was commemorating 150th year of the first war of independence, 100 years of Satyagraha and birth centenary of Bhagat Singh, all in the same year.

Publications Division is a unit under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting that brings out authentic and informative books on a spectrum of subjects at affordable prices. It has close to 8000 titles to its credit till now.

Started in 1941, Publications Division today is one of the biggest publishing organisations in the country. With a mandate to publish books on matters of national importance, the Division brings out books in Hindi, English and all major regional languages.

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