Full name : Dinesh Narain Verma
Formal name : D.N.Verma
Name as author : Dinesh.N.Verma
Address: 71-C, pocket-3,
Mayur Vihar , phase -1, Delhi- 110091
Telephone: Mobile: 9818089504
E-mail ID: dineshnarain.verma@gmail.com
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In the Service of Government of India:
Joined Central Information Service , Government of India, (later called IIS, Indian Information Service) at Delhi in 1966 and was initially exposed to 15 months course on ‘Theory and Practice of Communication’ at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi which involved intensive practical training through attachments with media units of Ministry of Information & broadcasting including Press Information Bureau, All India Radio, Directorate of Field Publicity, Publications Division, Films Division and Photo Division . I was also attached for a couple months to Daily ‘The Pioneer’, then an eminent English newspaper of Lucknow.
On completion of training, I had my first posting at Dehradun as Field Publicity Officer and later, the second one, at Aligarh. Before posting as Deputy Director, Directorate of Field Publicity, at Delhi, I had a stint of four years of deputation as Assistant Director (Publicity) at Indian Grain Storage Institute (IGSI), Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Hapur. On repatriation back to Ministry, I took charge in the research cell of the Exhibition Wing of Directorate of Advertising & Visual Publicity (DAVP). Later I took up the position as Joint Director (Advertising) in DAVP where I got further elevated to the position of Director. I stayed in DAVP for nine years holding charge in different capacities overseeing functioning of different wings including Printed Publicity, Exhibitions, Audio Visual, Campaigns, Accounts and Administration. I superannuated from Government in June 2000 after completing service for 34 years.
After Retirement:
Visiting lecturer on media
After retirement, I continued my links with media institutes in Delhi and Noida as visiting lecturer and these included Indian Institute of Mass communication where, apart from taking lectures for in house IIS trainees of the Ministry, I took up classes for trainees in journalism with focus on functioning of the Government media: government’s Information, Publicity and Public Relations System .
Joined Bar at Delhi
Simultaneously, I Joined Bar at Delhi and remained associated with a reputed law firm, Aggarwal & Associates, for around two years. And then, I took up position of legal Advisor in a company that dealt in techno-legal aspects of ‘Intellectual Property Rights’.
Engagement in Creative Writings
All this while I continued meddling with pen and paper and kept writing articles, stories and write ups some of which I published in my blog and a few found space in some newspapers. Brief relating to my writing work is given below:
Book on sale
My Times My Tales is my book which was published in 2016 by Peoples Syndicate Pvt Ltd. It comprised narration of 27 stories and write-ups on varied aspects of life. An extract from the preface to the book sums up the essence of this book which has gone in the press for the second time and is also available with Amazon.in.
‘Whatever else life may be, it certainly is not a smooth sail for a common man; nay, not even for those who we think are uncommon and special. We have our highs and lows, and, as we move ahead, crossing one milestone after another, we come across on way pleasant and unpleasant situations and events that leave a lasting impact on our minds. These write ups are the result of an effort prompted by my desire to peep into the vicissitudes of life and capriciousness of human nature through the incidents and episodes that I have witnessed and encountered in course of my journey from Bareilly, a small town in U.P. to the bustling metropolis of Delhi ……..’
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Books in pipeline
1) A novel in English under the tentative title ‘On a Bewitching Dreamland’.
2) ‘Commentary’ under title ‘Bhagavad Gita and the Common man’, the objective being to provide a simplified interpretation of tenets of the philosophy as relevant to life which can be easily understood, absorbed and assimilated by a common reader. This I initiated after I had completed translation of an exhaustive commentary on Bhagawad Gita (AS IT IS) by a learned scholar of Mathura from Hindi to English which I did as a gesture of good will .
3) The narratives which were published in newspapers are :
a) Flowers of Friction - The Hindustan Times, Delhi, November 23, 1995
b) Encounter with Ghosts- The Pioneer, Delhi,September15, 1995
c) Limping Dignity- The Pioneer, Delhi, Sept 2000 (Destination India)
4) After success of my published book, I have initiated work on a project treating nostalgia of the elderly people as a precious bridge between the past and the future for maintaining continuity of the cultural ethos of the country. This will be a collection my writings in the same pattern as has been that of the book published under the title MY Times My Tales,
5) In view of changing media scene , I have initiated research to undertake a project for writing a book on ‘Government Information and Publicity System’ as it exists today on the face of dozens of private 24x7 television channels and mushrooming of newspapers and periodicals in the country.
6) I have completed a considerable part of a book , tentatively titled ‘ India as Seen Through Eyes of a Common Man’. It is an exercise in locating grey shades all along the shimmering glitters of a shining India in course of its strides since Independence. To give an idea about the effort , I reproduced below an extract from the draft -preface to the book that ,I believe , carries the spirit of India as seen through the eyes of a common man:
“…………………..I, as a common man, during the last over six decades, have been a witness to the construction of a ‘house’ called India , with features that certainly makes it magnificent and, perhaps, as grand a house as many developed countries of the world are. But, I have also been watching with anxiety, the gradual and simultaneous crumbling of every thing that makes a ‘home’, despite our entire claim to our rich cultural heritage and healthy traditions. It leaves me worried that if the house and the home do not fuse together to become an inseparable home in the near future, will this magnificent house still be able to hold itself, despite our loud claim to the cultural strength and strong fibre of value system…….
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“We have had enough from the pen of established intellectuals and columnist. It is now my turn, as a common man, to look at things from the bottom, shorn of the heaps of statistics and recount in actual terms the experiences to find out where we stand after over six decades of independence …….”
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