शाश्वत सत्य यह था कि आदिवासी जंगल की सन्तान हैं। मगर वस्तुस्थिति यह थी कि उनमें से किसी के पास भी जंगल की जमीन का कोई पट्टा नहीं लिखा था। न ही उनमें इतनी समझ थी कि उस जमीन को अपने नाम लिखाकर रखें। अपने पूर्वजों की तरह वह उस जमीन पर खेती करते थे। जंगल से जीवन यापन करते थे। लेकिन साठ के दशक में अचानक वन अधिकारी नए नियम-कायदों की लाठी से लैस होकर वहाँ घुस गए। आदिवासियों को चूल्हे में जलाने के लिए, जंगलों की सूखी लकड़ियाँ बीनने तक से रोका जाने लगा। उनके भेड़-बकरियों को जंगल में चराने पर रोक लग...

It begins with a familiar story of displacement.The people of Jambhli have been ousted from their homes with promises of rehabilitation, and compensation in cash and land, to make way for an irrigation project and the construction of a large dam. The Jambhlikars’ anguish at leaving behind everything they have known and resettling among hostile strangers – the beneficiaries of the dam project – and their desperate search for alternative employment, for which they ar...

What does it take to become an IPS officer? Hours of rigorous physical training, mental toughening and systemic conditioning at the national police academy, along with a never-give-up attitude, unwavering courage, grit and determination.Win All Your Battles, first published in Marathi as Kar Har Maidan Fateh, is the fascinating story of how Vishwas Nangre Patil rose from his humble village origins to become a steadfast, upright police officer and youth icon.

Whenever decorated officer Vishwas Nangre Patil recalls the memories of Diwali from his childhood days, the sounds of firecrackers often transform into the deafening grenade blasts from the night of 26/11. It was his grit, cultivated over the years from the neck-breaking labour of studying for the UPSC exams, that had enabled him to power on and gun down the terrorists inside the Taj Mahal Palace hotel during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Head Held High, translated from the Marathi book Mann Me...

What does it take to become an IPS officer? Hours of rigorous physical training, mental toughening and systemic conditioning at the national police academy, along with a never-give-up attitude, unwavering courage, grit and determination.Win All Your Battles, first published in Marathi as Kar Har Maidan Fateh, is the fascinating story of how Vishwas Nangre Patil rose from his humble village origins to become a steadfast, upright police officer and youth icon.

Today, whenever decorated officer Vishwas Nangre Patil recalls the memories of Diwali from his childhood days, the sounds of the firecrackers often transform into the deafening grenade blasts from the night of 26/11. It was his grit, cultivated over the years from the neck-breaking labour of studying for the UPSC exams, that had enabled him to power on and gun down the terrorists inside an aflame Taj Hotel during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Head Held High, translated from the Marathi...

पोलीस अधिकारी विश्वास नांगरे पाटील लिखित 'मन में है विश्वास' या आत्मकथनपर पुस्तक, स्वतःविषयी खरं लिहिणं हा जीवघेणा अनुभव असतो तरीही विश्वास नांगरे-पाटील यांनी स्वतःला मोकळेपणी व्यक्त केलंय. आपल्या कुटुंबाची, समाजाची पुनर्तपासणी केलीय, नात्यागोत्यातील उभ्या-आडव्या धाग्यांचा छेद घेऊन उकल केलीये. अत्यंत प्रत्ययकारी भाषेत असलेले हे आत्मकथन लेखकाच्या प्रगल्भ मनाची जाणीव करून देते.

प्रतिकुल परिस्थितीवर मात करत जिद्द, चिकाटीने स्पर्धा परीक्षांच्या माध्यमातून देशाच्या प्रशासकीय व पोलिस सेवेत जाऊन आपल्या कर्तृत्वाचा ठसा उमटविणाऱ्या अधिकाऱ्यांशी प्रकट संवाद.

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