Sanjeev Chopra
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Historian and Festival Director at Valley of Words. Order my book: The Great Conciliator https://t.co/gHfU997o0c
Dehradun
Joined January 2010
Have ordered the book for the VoW Cafe @Sahastradhara Road . Looking forward to a nuanced discussion on this in the first week of December
#NewBookAlert šŖ· Presenting the much-awaited & talked-about book: Raiders in Kashmir by Major Gen. (Retd) Akbar Khan, published by Akshaya Prakashan. Shipping of Pre-orders shall begin really soon. #BuyOriginal š® #BuyFromPI Order š https://t.co/wntiosHndP
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How wonderful ! Looking forward to featuring this book at VoW SAFAL edition at the South Asian University in September 2026
The first woman in Bhutan to be published in English, Kunzang Choden, in her memoir Telling Me My Stories, gives an account of belonging, loss, and displacement. Read more here: https://t.co/aT6NZc4HsC
#BloomsburyIndia #books
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with you on this . lets hope the government steps in . or we can start a crowdfund for this
Amid the celebrations and festivities in #Uttarakhand, a brief video message from disaster-hit #Dharali on our Silver Jubilee Day, November 9, 2025. The government still has a long way to go to restore the lives of the people of Dharali. Just five lakh rupees per family is
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COP has not received the kind of media attention it deserves - for the headline space has been taken up by wars and tariffs - therefore I would like to compliment CRF President Shishir Priyadarshi for bringing greater heft to this discourse
As #COP30 begins today, itās time to move from ambition to accountability! At the recent #CRFPreCOP Dialogue, our President Shishir PriyadarshiĀ reflected on whatās been achieved, what hasnāt, and how the Global SouthĀ must reclaim its place, proving that growth and sustainability
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Introducing Sanjeev Chopra @ChopraSanjeev, former IAS officer and ex-Director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, as well as Festival Director of Valley of Words. A Senior Fellow in Contemporary History at the Prime Ministersā Memorial and Library and
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Manish Tiwari , the Member of Parliament from Chandigarh shared a link to Chandigarh Chintan, in which he talks about the history,challenges , issues and possible options . I wish that every MP comes out with a report card on her/his constituency
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In addition to the Mahatma's Hind Swaraj and Savarkar's First War of Independence , this was also the year ofSri Aurobindo's Uttarapara address in which he stated that India needs 'spiritual evolution ' before her 'political revolution '
Makarand Paranjapeās Hindutva and Hind Swaraj seeks to heal Indiaās fractured historical imagination by exploring how Gandhi and Savarkar, opposites in spirit, still spoke to the same nation; writes @ChopraSanjeev
https://t.co/PYqc04VwLO
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Its also available for reading at the VoW Cafe and Library on the Sahastradhara Road
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This is on our shortlist for this year . I recently went to see one of them at the Moravian Institute , next to CSOI . Have requested the Forest department to include this in their heritage list as well .
I canāt recommend enough to buy and read this magisterial work by S Natesh. It should be a mandatory read in schools and colleges and should figure as top read in public libraries for an ecological awakening. The story of 75 iconic trees of India remind us that India and
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The British were past masters in distributing territories and creating fissures on lands that did not belong to them in the first place !
My piece on the Balfour declaration, letter that played a pivotal role in igniting the āPalestinian conflictā. For @thetribunechd
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A big thank you to Hindustan Times for carrying our latest findings. Yesterday, we released a data-driven factsheet titled āComparative Performance of #Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha: Gaps and Challenges.ā As our state marks 25 years of its formation, our report highlights a serious
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'From guns to guitarsāNagaland has changed over the last three decades' Sanjeev Chopra @ChopraSanjeev, former IAS officer, writes #ThePrintOpinion
https://t.co/RMypo4EhFh
theprint.in
It wasn't the negotiations with Naga rebel leaders that marked the turning point for the state. It was the establishment of the Department of Development of North Eastern Region.
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'Wakhan Corridor ā Indiaās forgotten 106-km border with Afghanistan is back in play' Sanjeev Chopra @ChopraSanjeev, former IAS officer, writes #ThePrintOpinion
https://t.co/vWgr8GfONg
theprint.in
The Wakhan Corridor, located in Afghanistanās Badakhshan province, borders PoJK, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Chinaās Xinjiang ā once linking these regions through the strategic Silk Road.
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āIn Uttarakhand, literature in hill languages is still nascent. There are famous authors from the hills ā Leela Dhar Jagudi, @NamitaGokhale_ , Stephen Alter ā and a few independent presses in Dehradunā writes @ChopraSanjeev in https://t.co/KgYDIHa4eQ via @scroll_in
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Sanjeev Chopra, Festival Director of Valley of Words, which is held in Dehradun, writes about how readers and writers can create an open, secular dialogue.
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Looking forward to an intellectually stimulating weekend !
Thanks to @vowlitfest - all the VBA winning books, including ANANDA, are now on display on hoardings across Dehradun. See you at the festival this weekend! š· courtesy: @ChopraSanjeev
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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. @appadappajappa thank you very much for so ardently spreading the message āšš
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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
Sanjeev Chopra, former IAS and Festival Director, Valley of Words joins Col Anurag Awasthi to explore how Indiaās literary culture is evolving ā from celebrating unheard voices to reviving reading in regional languages. Stay tuned for a powerful reflection on storytelling,
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āļø Catch Nitin Gairola in conversation with Ratna Manucha at VoW 2025! š¤ Institutional Partners: Him Jyoti School š 25ā26 Oct | Hotel Madhuban, Dehradun
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Indeed a terrible human tragedy ...
The "Hollowing of the Hills" in #Uttarakhand Should one not one even look at this and/or move on to the next reel, or should one halt for a while and look at theĀ tragedy unfolding in the villages of UttarakhandĀ whereĀ there are now not even four people left to shoulder the body
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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
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