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Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM (Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. Presently, he is serving as Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad is involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’. ) ? Happy New Year 2021!? Having bid farewell to year 2020, we're ushering in the New Year 2021, which calls for a celebration, as it is an occasion to  spend frolicking time with near-and-dear ones, and exchange Happy New Year wishes and greetings. A great deal of things happen in the ...

☆ Wah Ustaad! - Mr Vinay Madhav Gokhale☆ It was on a Sunday morning. I was sipping my morning cuppa when my attention was drawn to the news in ‘Sakal’ about a Pune district level carrom tournament being underway. I had this long cherished wish to watch one. With not much having to do for the day, I decided today was going to be it. A call was made to Ajay, a late-afternoon time was fixed and there we were, standing in the table tennis rooms at Nehru stadium. There already was a motley crowd inside comprising mostly of spectators like us, tournament organizers wearing the caps, few of them wearing their club ‘T’ shirts and then there were friends and supporters of the individual players or clubs etc. Why so much crowd for a district level Carrom tournament, I wondered. I was to get an apt answer soon. The air inside was stuffy with practically no air conditioning or circulation in place....

Shri Ajeet Singh  (We present an article ‘Shri M K Pardhi - A Centurian Journalist remembers ... ’ written by Shri Ajeet Singh ji, Ex-Director (News), Doordarshan.) We are extremely thankful to Shri Ajeet Singh ji for sharing experience of Shri M K Pardhi ji who celebrated his 100th birthday on 18th December 2020.  ? e-abhivyakti family extends heartiest greetings to Shri M K Pardhi ji.?)  ☆ Shri M K Pardhi - A Centurian Journalist remembers ... : Shri Ajeet Singh ☆ Shri M.K . Pardhi,  a former officer of the Indian Information Service, who completed one hundred years of his glorious life Friday, is proud of his one special assignment and has a deep regret for another in his long professional career as a journalist. Shri Pardhi who is hale and hearty shared some of his experiences today at a webinar organised by All India Radio Pune to mark the occasion. People from different parts of India joined to wish him a happy birth day and listen to his experiences and advice for the new...

Shri Ajeet  Singh  (We present an article ‘Meet my friend Swami Sudarshanam...’ written by Shri Ajeet Singh ji, Ex-Director (News), Doordarshan. We are extremely thankful to Shri Ajeet Singh ji for sharing experience of his friend Mr. Srinivasan Sudarshanam now Swami Sudarshanam while he was AIR’s correspondent in New Delhi who covered reporting of 13/12 attack from inside Parliament.)  ☆ Meet my friend Swami Sudarshanam... : Shri Ajeet Singh ☆ Srinivasan Sudarshanam wanted to be an army officer after doing his B.A. in Literature in Sailam city of Tamilnadu. Medical test held at Roorkee in present day Uttarakhand, failed him. Living with his sister in New Delhi, he tried for several jobs and got the post of a Public Relations Officer in the Delhi Industrial Development Corporation where he worked for about nine years. In between, he cleared the UPSC examination for the Indian Information Service in 1983 and was posted as a Correspondent in the All India Radio where he worked for over 22 years. Taking voluntary retirement in 2005, feeling that it...

Shri Ajeet Singh (We present an article ‘Life on the edge for BSF wives....’ on the eve of  BSF Day – 1st December written by Shri  Ajeet  Singh ji, Director (News), Doordarshan. We are extremely thankful to Shri Ajeet Singh ji for sharing his experience while he was AIR's correspondent in Jammu and Kashmir for over 19 years.)  ☆ BSF Day - 1st December ☆ Sometime in Srinagar: Life on the edge for BSF wives...☆ (Writer Shri Ajeet Singh ji was AIR's correspondent in Jammu and Kashmir for over 19 years.  He retired as Director of News, Doordarshan, Hisar.) Sometime in Srinagar: Mrs Ekka suddenly held me by both my wrists and asked me to tell the truth as I, standing at the door, conveyed her a message that she should get ready to go to the army Base Hospital in Srinagar and a vehicle was on the way to pick her up. Her husband, BSF Assistant Commandant Ekka who lived in the room next to mine in the Safe Zone declared Tourist Reception Centre, had been injured in...