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Bringing India to Indians
Beyond Education as Usual
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The Value Education project by One Heritage Media and Shiv Kunal Verma is an attempt to widen educational horizons in India. The verticals being addressed under the banner of Value Education aim to qualitatively impact and change the Indian education system, especially at the K-12 level. The three core areas of focus in the project include detailed awareness of various parts of the subcontinent, environment and wildlife, and the military history of India. At present, none of these topics exist beyond the perfunctory in the laid down syllabuses of the various educational boards. The program being developed hence intends to give children in India learning resources that will alter their world view.
The initial 12 book series as part of the Value Education project, along with the larger format books, will bring India to Indians globally, also going beyond the academic setting. In this session, Shiv Kunal Verma takes us through the contents of the publication, which is almost three decades of dedicated research.
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Shiv Kunal Verma
Shiv Kunal Verma was educated at the Doon School and Madras Christian College. He then worked with Tiger Tops in Ladakh and Nepal, reconnoitering various trekking routes between the Kashmir Valley and Zanskar in the early 1980s. After working as a journalist with India Today and the Associated Press in the mid 1980s, he shot and directed the Project Tiger television series for Sanctuary Films. Under the banner of KaleidoIndia, he then went on to shoot and direct numerous films mainly for the Armed Forces during the next decade. This involved working extensively with the Air Force, Navy, and the Army, because of which he clocked many hours on frontline fighter aircraft and warships, apart from operating with troops in some of the remotest parts of the country. In 1999 he not only filmed the Kargil War himself, but he also helped set up and manage the publicity for the army while operating independently from outside the government.
His films include the JRD Tata-sponsored Salt of the Earth and Aakash Yodha, both on the IAF, The Naval Dimension and Green Flash: India’s Fighting Man; The Standard Bearers on the National Defence Academy, The Making of a Warrior on the Indian Military Academy, and a film on the LCA (Wings of the Future). All these films were considered by critics to have set the benchmark and most of the films were repeatedly telecast on the Discovery Channel.
The author of several books including Ocean to Sky: India from the Air; The Long Road to Siachen; The Northeast Trilogy; The Assam Rifles; 1962: The War That Wasn’t and 1965: A Western Sunrise, he has multiple interests that include developing a Value Education Program, which includes books on diverse key subjects, including Wildlife and Military History. For the last six years, he has also been at the helm of the seminal Military History Seminar that is conducted by the Welham Boys’ School, Dehradun.
