ABOUT THE BOOK

Chairman REACHA and former Civil Servant (IAS Retired; 1961 batch from the UP Cadre; Former Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Agriculture and later Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) Sri J.C.Pant has come out with his book

"Pandit Sriram Sharma Acharya As I knew Him…Memoirs of A Civil Servant"

The book was formally released on 12th May 2010 by Smt & Sri Pant by placing the first copy of the publication on the Samadhi of Sant Gyaneshwar in Alandi near Pune. According to Sri Pant, Sant Gyaneshwar (1275 - 1296 AD) is the father of the Indian Renaissance. With his "Gyaneshwari," Sant Gyaneshwar, at the tender age of 14 years for the first time brought the eternal message of The Bhagwad Gita to the common masses through metaphoric verses in exquisite Marathi. The next major effort at bringing the eternal message of the Vedas was undertaken at the ripe age of 76 years by Goswami Tulsi Das in the 17th century AD through his "Ram Charit Manas" through exquisite versing in Awadhi. The Bhagwad Gita was to later become the gospel of the Indian freedom movement, to inspire great leaders like Lok Manya Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi.

This book has already reached the four National Libraries at New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai & Mumbai. It adorns the libraries of the LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie (3 copies); the UP Academy of Administration, Lucknow (10 copies); the Uttarakhand Academy of Administration, Nainital (5 copies); IIPA New Delhi; India International Centre, New Delhi;

Gymkhana Club, New Delhi; Parliament House Library, New Delhi; Uttarakhand Council for Science & Technology (UCOST), Dehradun (5 copies); Population Foundation of India, New Delhi (20 copies), Manav Bharati India International School, New Delhi (10 copies), Doon Library, Dehradun (2 copies) & Bhatt Brothers, Dehradun (25 copies). In addition to this, scores of batchmates in IAS & other colleagues & friends too have bought a copy or two of the book, each during the last few months