A READY RECKONER : THE ART OF WAR Sun Tzu
‘Art of War’ by Sun Tzu, is an exceptional account of the military strategy and warfare ever written. Unfortunately, the chosen expressions and language, the flow of the text and elucidation of what Sun Tzu said and meant, is not easy to comprehend. The endeavour, therefore, in this ‘Ready Reckoner’, has been to reorganise it and make it more adaptive to a modern-day military mind. Further, to aid the DSSC aspirants, relevant questions which get thrown up as you read along, have been culled out and indicated at the end of each chapter. Wish you a happy reading!!
Major General Joydeep Bhati, SM, an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, was commissioned in December 1980 into the Mechanised Infantry Regiment. He through his illustrious career of 38 years has served the Indian army with distinction.
He has had the honour of commanding a Mechanised Infantry battalion in both Counter Insurgency environment and Op PARAKRAM. He also had the privilege of commanding an Infantry Brigade in a Strike Corps. In staff, he has been a Brigade Major of an Armoured Brigade, Colonel General Staff in the Army Training Command, Colonel Administration of a RAPID and Major General Operation Logistics in two commands.
Besides all the basic courses, he has attended the prestigious Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and Higher Command Course at Army War College, Mhow.
Post superannuating, he has settled at Agra where he continues to contribute to society in multifarious ways.
Colonel Shashank Kaushal has been a soldier for 23 years in the Indian Army. He did all his mandatory courses to include Commando, Infantry Young officer’s Course and Mechanised Young officer’s Course, Junior Command and prestigious Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. He was an instructor Class A at Indian Military Academy and later GSO1 at an Independent mechanised Brigade in western Sector. He also had a tenure as Colonel MS and Military Advisor to GoC-in-C in two different commands including Army Training Command. He has authored one fiction “Inspiration Stories on Wheels (Travel Short Stories)” and second book is in the pipeline with one of the big five publishers. Having taken voluntary retirement from army to pursue his literary passion he is settled in Gurugram and continues to write about various issues of social relevance.
A Tree Named Poetree
The book is a collection of poems which has been written in the last decade. Most of the poems were written between 2016- 2020. The subjects are varied, and are the outcome of feelings and emotions.
The poet believes poetry is the inference of thought, dream, discernment, and imagination. And that is how this tree has grown and is aptly named, A Tree named Poetree.
Academy Policies
Through this acknowledgement, I endeavour to thank every person and element, including my guru, that has been instrumental in shaping these policies and compiling them to bring it in the form of a book. Although the policies started to build up since day one of the inception of the school, the actual document of it was endorsed first in 2014 during the five years IB evaluation. Each policy has been reviewed and altered time and again with the change in practices, teaching methodology, review in curriculum, staff allocation, student numbers, parents’ involvement, community support and other similar cases.
The school has always seen an upward graph with regard to the achievements, accolades and awards until it saw the adverse effects of the pandemic, where policies and practices had to be altered to meet the needs of students, staff as well as parents. This included the addition of a few other policies like The well-being policy, The exam policy etc. These policies have helped immensely with the steadfast growth of the institution which brings all the community members on the same page. Each policy resonates the school’s vision and mission statement and the school philosophy.
It also reflects the views of Dr K.M.V. Pillai, highlighted in his book “Edunation“ and I remain indebted to him for helping me shape the course of the school and the ideas behind each policy.
I remain thankful to the staff members of the school in sharing their perspectives towards writing these policies – Principal, section heads, coordinators, teachers, non-teaching staff and office staff.
I appreciate the support of my family, my husband and son in being patient with me and my time schedule which also included late hours at work, only to leave very early again the next morning for the last two decades and more.
All I believe is, no person can be self made, self-sufficient or can do things single-handedly, especially when running a school and managing it, is concerned.
Every single person that I have come across with, during this journey has shaped my personality in some manner or the other, a part of which is probably reflected in this book. I wish to thank each of the above members sincerely and wish the best for them always.
—Dr. Sharda Sharma
ACCIDENTAL
Okay, let’s get this straight. You don’t actually need to read this part, but it would be better if you did. I am not the main character of this book – I’m the ‘narrator’, an entity that simply exists in this universe to narrate this story. I would like you to note that my mind-reading powers are not really 100% accurate, so I won’t always be able to tell accurately what a character is thinking. Now that all the boring stuff is out of the way, let’s get into the fun part; the part you’re here for…
Acharya Dr. Jagdish Chandra Mishra Abhinandan – Granth
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