 May I start sir? Yes, please go ahead sir. Thank you so much. Sati Bhai Bhuinikan, Ajay Amikan, National Unity Day, Celebrate Kuri Bhole Program, Deh Saap ke Welcome Kuriya se. I express my sincere gratitude to Honorable Head of the Department of Political Science, Dr. Rimae Longmai, Honorable Vice Principal, Dr. Hewasa Loren, Honorable Dean, Dr. Ellika Asumi, and Honorable Director Shri Kula Loren for their active contribution, help and unconditional support in organizing today's program. Dear brothers and sisters, Rajshri Ekthadevas, which is also known as National Unity Day, was introduced by the Government of India and inaugurated by Honorable Prime Minister Shrinarendra Modi in 2014. The intent is to pay tribute to Vallabhai Patel, who was instrumental in keeping India united. It is to be celebrated on 31st October every year as annual commemoration of the birthday of the Iron Man of India, Sadar Vallabhai Patel, one of the founding leaders of Republic of India. The official statement of Rajshri Ekthadevas by Home Ministry of India cites that the National Unity Day will provide an opportunity to reaffirm the inherent strength and resilience of our nation to withstand the actual and potential threats to the unity, integrity, and security of our country. On today's occasion, we are blessed and privileged to have Brigadier Dr. Jeevan Rajpurohit as our chief guest. An alumnus of National Defence Academy Kune, and Indian Ministry Academy Dehradun. Jeevan has graduated from Defence Services Staff College Wellington and attended prestigious Higher Defence Management course at College of Defence Management, PDM, Sikhandrabad. Dr. Jeevan has served in United Nations Mission Assignments at Cambodia with wide-ranging experience of Kashmiri Insurgency, CHN Glacier, and Deserts of India. He has been commended by Indian Army Chief Trice for Country Insurgency Operations and by Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee for Academic Excellence at College of Defence Management, Sikhandrabad. He was the leader of disaster relief operations, training and administration of Department of DOI, that is Government of India. He was also Chairman of three Army Schools and one Central School. His academic qualifications include Masters in Management Studies and Masters of Philosophy and PhD in Management from Othmania University, Hyderabad for his study on job satisfaction among officers of Indian Armed Forces. He was contributed a number of articles on organizational behavior and international relations in CDM, National and International Journal. Brigadier has been instructor in CDM in the Department of Organizational Behavior and has been head of Faculty Behavioral Sciences at the College of Defence Management and was senior faculty at Army Training Command, Shimla. He has been part of many delegations abroad for strategic management and international relations tours. He is a visiting faculty to a large number of militaries, civil and corporate institutions and has conducted organizational behavior workshops across the country. Brigadier Sir, I wholeheartedly welcome you. Thank you very much. We are also blessed to have our students who are wholeheartedly participating in the celebration of unity. What more do we need? Let us celebrate unity. Let us celebrate Republic of India. With these few words, I once again welcome you all to this colorful program to celebrate the unity of this ancient, grand nation, the land of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Nanak, Dharashtra, Moses, Muhammad. With the permission from honorable chairpersons, I would like to conclude my welcome speech with a poem in Sanktam Naga language. This poem was taught to me by my Sanktam mother and father in Nagaland. I dedicate this poem to the daily struggles, dreams, aspirations and bright future of my people in Nagaland. This poem celebrates the unity of the people in spirit, in nation, under the guiding light of the Republic of India. The poem goes like this. O ye limi hee, kuddoe aadeng nong atsa, kuddoe akyunyong rong, lisah apum kuddo, sanah issa limi hee, beku nuh vanong. The meaning of this poem is oh this land of mine, how beautiful, how desirable. Come, let us all unite and take our land forward. Come, let us all unite and take our land forward. With these words, I conclude my speech and once again, wholeheartedly welcome all of you to this grand event to celebrate the oneness. Thank you, Jai Hind, Kukna Lim. Thank you so much. Thank you, sir, for welcoming us with your speech. We truly feel invited and welcome. Moving on now, I would like to give time to the head of department of political science, Dr. Rimi Longmay to amplify on national UNDPM and its core. Sir, kindly take your time. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. Meri Pyeri Bayo Beno or Pyeri Vidayutio. Arj Rastriya Ekta Divaske Pawan O Serpa May Dr. Rimi Longmay Aapsapka Hardik Swagat Katau. Honorable guest speakers, sir, our special invitees, fellow teachers and lovely students, all the participants, ladies and gentlemen, today I'm indeed happy to share a few points with you all on this important topic. Why National Unity Day? Why National Unity Day today? Well, we begin the story of politics in India since independence. As you all know, the first few years in the life of independent India were full of challenges. Some of the most pressing one concerned national unity and territorial integrity of India. We all have read history textbooks that their goals are to agree one, independence we shall run our country through democratic government and two, that the government will be run for the good of all, particularly the poor and the socially disadvantaged groups. Now that the country was independent, the time had come to realize the promise of freedom which was not going to be easy as India was born in very difficult circumstances. Perhaps no other country by then was born in a situation more difficult than that of India in 1947. Freedom came with the partition of the country. The year 1947 was the year of unprecedented violence and trauma of displacement. It was in this situation that independent India started on its journey to achieve several objectives. Yet the turmoil that accompanied independence did not make our leaders lose sight of the multiple challenges that faced the new nation. Broadly, ladies and gentlemen, independent India faced three kinds of challenges of nation-building. The first and the immediate challenge was to shape a nation that was united yet accommodated of the diversity in our society. The second challenge was to establish democracy and make it work in India. A democratic constitution is necessary but not sufficient for establishing a successful working democracy. So the challenge was to develop democratic practices in accordance with the constitution of the country. The third challenge was to ensure the development and well-being of all people, the entire society and not only of some factions. The real challenge now was to evolve effective policies of economic development and eradication of poverty and other social problems. Well, ladies and gentlemen, now we focus on the first challenge of nation-building that occupies central states in the years immediately after independence. As has been mentioned, since the birth of India resulted from the division of the country, the problem of national unity and integration doped down her from its very birth. The then political leaders, especially Sadar Balabhai Patel, try their best to achieve political and territorial unification of India. As you all know, our country is a land of continental size and diversity. Its people speak different languages and follow different cultures and religions. At that time, it was widely believed that a country full of such kinds of diversity could not remain together for long. The partition of the country appeared to prove everyone's worst fears. They were serious questions about the future of India. Would India survive as a unified country? Etc. When Sadar Patel took charge of the Indian State Department, created by the Government of India to deal with matters arising between the central government and the state, Indian states, following his advice, as well as that of the Lord, Mount Britain, all the states, with a few exceptions, decided to accede to the Indian Union in accordance with an instrument of accession. Before the end of November 1949, the integration of Indian states was completed with the exception of Hyderabad and Kashmir. Today, ladies and gentlemen, we all gather here to mark the 145th birth anniversary of a great leader, Sadar Balubhai Patel, the Ironman of India, and to pay him a rich tribute. Sadar Patel fought against the British Empire and as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of Independent India played a crucial role in the unification of India. But the problem of this is its nature and change in the course of time. Earlier it was the problem of integration of princely states. Now it is the problem of separatist movements launched in various regions and states in the country. Let us all unite together and support the process of national unity and integration and dedicate ourselves to preserve the unity, integrity and security of this great nation. Zahin, thank you all. Thank you, sir, for enlightening us with national unity them, making it even more vivid to everyone present today. We are really pleased. To freshen things up a little, here is a special performance by Naseen Gundang of Third Semester VA presenting the song One Day. Sir Sabur, over to you. Thank you, Naseen Gundang, for your delightful performance. In accordance to today's order of programs, we now have a short speech by Dr. Esbika Sumi, dean of these social sciences. Eselika, over to you. Okay, our chairperson, can we move ahead with the program? All right, sir. Good evening. Thank you, Naseen Gundang All right, sir. Good afternoon, everyone. I do hope you're able to hear me clearly. I'm Anjan Behra, the assistant dean. And I was well, I would say fortunate enough to be one of the judges for this event. The essays which were given to us, that is from the students, they were very interesting to read and what I found most striking was that they were original. I did run a plagiarism check and there was nothing that was left off the internet. I think that just goes to show your interest and your passion towards writing and that is something that you must cultivate in Harvard. All the essays were good, of course, but this is a competition. So we can, so there have to be some who have, I mean, there are some who don't. I'd like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone of you to continue writing. I think there is a certain flag that we have observed in your writing and each one of you should definitely continue writing. One suggestion and feedback which we had from our side, the judges, that is when you write on that particular topic, maybe it would be better if you express your opinions instead of describing or defiling the topic because that is something that everyone knows about. The winners today have excelled in their writing. They have hit the right voice. They have included their personal opinions and that is what made their writings really interesting. So as has been told to me, I shall now be declaring the winners of the essay writing competition organized as part of the national national unity day. All right, in third place in third place we have Ms. Abeni Yantan in second place Moza Sangtam and the winner of this essay writing competition this year is Keza Viko Lushe with a total score of 25. Congratulations to all the winners and all the participants. You should be proud of your work. Please continue to do well and God bless you all. Thank you so much. Thank you. And now for the presentation I call the winners to give their presentation one after the other. All over to you guys. Thank you very much for the time. A very good afternoon to Sirs and Madamies Professors and everyone present here today. I am Mr. Moza Sangtam of BAFIT semester from Department of Political Science. I am very delighted and thankful to the Department of Political Science for organizing such an event on this auspicious day and also for giving me an opportunity to present a short Petritics is there on the team of National Unity. So without further ado, let me read out my essay for you. National Unity Reflections and Perspectives The concept of National Unity is vaguely understood. National Unity is not something that is applicable only when there is a need or situation arises, owing to internal or external conflicts. In recent times, our country India faced external conflict with neighboring countries. In such circumstances, we call for National Unity in the form of collective efforts in poicketing products, banning digital apps and so on. However, the greater questions still remain unanswered. India as a nation comprises of many small minorities groups, having their own distinct identity, cultural traditions, race, language, religion and whatnot. So the concept of National Unity becomes a very significant concept in a country like India. The notion of National Unity must not be construed, construed only in the spectrum of electoral politics. As formation of a government in the center through coalition form is merely one part of it. Every leader not necessarily from ruling or opposition parties must leave behind their ideologies when the question of national integrity, harmony and peace among its citizens is concerned. Unfortunately, it has been seen that one community is used to spread hatred against another to gain petty political powers by political soldiers. We have to understand that political elites plays a pivotal role in bringing unity and them not being used as a scapegoat. It would be wrong and one cited to solely help political masters responsible for this unity and disharmony. When we speak of national unity and integrity there might be instances of discrimination on the basis of ethnic identity and caste. Someone might have been wrapped in the name of caste. Social unity cannot be achieved in its true sense when people within the country are broken and living a fractured socio-political life. India takes pride in the so called unity and diversity. Unity and diversity, however the unity that exists is, I believe, not the natural unity but the manufactured unity. Dr. Bheera Ambedkar, the founder of modern India and the architect of its constitution, believed in social brotherhood. The values of which he inculcated in the law of the land. However, it is we who are failing to give justice to the ideals in our constitution. As we would not free ourselves from the notion of caste, great religion, gender and other socio-political binaries that becomes grave threat to the unity of this glorious nation. Men must learn to live like men and treat his fellow countrymen like human beings. Only then national unity will be cherished and thereby will surely flourish. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. I would like Abeni Yantam to take her time. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Abeni Yantam and I'm currently in B.S. Center taking political science as my major. I'm really excited to be at this event. Now I'll be presenting my essay. To live in peace is to live in harmony. Let us build bridges, not walls. I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty, whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of our language. I want all people to be Indians first. Indians last and nothing else but Indians. That's where we are on that term. National Unity Day was introduced by the Government of India in 2014. National Unity Day was celebrated annually on 1st October, the birth anniversary of Sardar Balabai Patel. It is celebrated to pre-tribute Sardar Balabai Patel who has played a huge role in keeping India united as a Muslim. Sardar Balabai Patel has played a crucial role in India's freedom of man and was the person who persuaded the 565 Prince Lee State to assist India. He is also known as the Iron Man of India for his great commitment towards national integration. India is a vast land of culture despite all differences it's then told as for one. To continue to maintain unity one must educate and make aware of the fact that it is of utmost importance that one must accept all differences and unite together as one for a better man of our common destiny. Men will practice from home itself the culture of unity. If the members of the family do not cooperate or the oneness is missing the family will surely collect. It will never be a happy family. It is not possible to bring unity or oneness at once but from within we can cultivate and spread the message of unity the society needs to come to the state and to these little baby steps will surely bear fruit which each and every individual will enjoy. Without unity there is no solution. With unity there is peace. National Unity Day is celebrated across the countries in India every year to keep the spirit of brotherhood alive oneness and most importantly sense of unity among us. We shouldn't solely rely on our leaders or freedom fighters to bring peace and unity but one should realize that you and I are common men when John hands together as one can achieve so much more by just composing essays, celebrating, taking pictures and just posting it on media is not enough. We should work hard every day to educate to spread the message of unity the state of being one. It is a common sense of brotherhood oneness of mind feeling etc. In today's world of regionalism separatism somewhere the land of unity must lead. It is very necessary for the progress of nation. For the progress of nation it is only possible when all people unite bringing people together does not necessarily mean by sacrificing our lives. We can unite ourselves through spreading messages. There is a saying that words are the greatest weapon. Awake my dear fellow countrymen it's time to unite ourselves enough of these differences it is time to unite to achieve peace justice betterment for our India. Let's all take place that we won't have the same motherland. Thank you. Thank you Sir Anjan. I didn't expect to win this but thank you very much indeed. I wouldn't want to bore you so I'll try to keep this short in the screen. Here is my essay on unity and integration of India. India is not the great country of unity. It is not the great country that many of us wish it was. May have dawned on us by now that our country suffers from numerous problems from scarcity of education and literacy to miserably poor sanitation or from its extreme safeness for religious dogma and extremism to its unsafeness for women across our country. India certainly has her hands full. We are plagued with issues that the great society we witness them multiple times in hideous forms. India is arguably not the greatest country but we are a country of great friendship of a brotherhood between a Muslim and a Hindu of a Christian family celebrating Christmas with their Buddhist neighbors walking hand in hand as we exist under the same Bahá'u'lláh mother. India is by no means the perfect country but we've always strived for a national spirit of togetherness. In fact we've done that better than any country in the world. Have you heard of the sick men in Punjab who donate food to weary Muslims and Jains during quarantine? Have you heard of the Gujarati who adopted 472 orphaned girls? Have you read of the Naga woman who fights racism in Punjab by providing food to migrant workers? Ours is not an ideal nation but a nation that builds itself hand in hand. States, provinces families stitched together into this Indian fabric by history and democracy. We the people carry the very same principles of tolerance as first edged by the founding fathers of India. We are citizens of a country riddled with great pains and suffering and it is upon us to decide what we do to improve it together. The question truly is not if you're an Indian the only real question is how will you prove that you're an Indian? Thank you and Jai Hind. Thank you Kecha we call besides first, second and third prize winners we have two consolation prize winners they are Canisidio Mesa of BA 5th semester and Karen Ken of BA 3rd semester you may also take your time respectively. Since they are not here let's move on with the other of the program. Thank you guys for your wonderful presentation. We are truly grateful for your work. May your work inspire others. Congratulations once again and also a massive thank you to those who participated. Now we have come to the most important part of the program as there is a saying by Brandon Sanderson the mark of equipment is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. Today we have one such gentlemen but also wound and inspired society. Joining us today is the man himself known other than our Honorable Brigadier Dr. G1 Raj Porohit Sir it's a pleasure to have you with us today and I keep you designed to enlighten us with the rush to give us this speech. Sir please take your time. Thank you very much Emily it's indeed an honor and a privilege to be part of the college. At the outset I congratulate Principal Mr. Lauren the entire team of the college who organized this function in a wonderful outstanding manner my sincere compliments to each one of you. The organizers are simply awesome. I am more than confident about this young generation doing better than what we really need. My sincere compliments to each one of you. This is indeed a very very privileged day to day National Unity Day I was invited by Kanjoy and the team Dr. Anirudh and it gave me a thought as to why the college would select a person from army on this day to organize and be the calling day calling speaker. I realize the past print lies in our hearts our culture our values and the ancient traditions that we hold in India Unity Day may have been in 2014 but look back look back at the years that we have spent that we have experienced when the world was nowhere we were at the knuckle of happiness knuckle of success knuckle of glory the ancient Indian glory that we had other civilizations will take time to achieve it and I look back as to India and the entire to say South India South Asia per se South Asia includes India and all the neighboring countries around India which has got about 5.2 million square kilometers of the area area wise and I just correlated the same with the India that existed during Chanakya span during Chandragupam area I hope I am connected now yes sir now you are visible and audible as well thank you very much so what I was mentioning that India or South Asia that exists today has got large number of countries and the India that existed was 2500 years ago 3000 years ago the area is similar and if you go back in the times it was even even bigger and if you recollect this entire area was called as Jambu Dwipe Bharat Varshay a huge nation it was called a Dwipe in itself the Greeks the Iranian civilization the Egyptian civilizations they drew our name from a Sindh river the name Hindustan or Hindus came from Sindh it became came to be known as Hindus as us and gradually the Iranians and the Greeks they called us Ivatos and when it was Englishized the name became Indies and the India and Indians that we are today so as regards the geographical existence the heritage existence the cultural existence that we have it is huge it is one union that has been all along with us in one nation it is possibly the change in times the historical perspectives the onslaught of Mughals, Muslims and then the invasion by the British that took us down for a while but this thousand years of our downfall does not mean that we are a small nation I compliment Lausheh and Aveni who spoke about the national unity and the unity that is in our hearts actually is in our hearts we are such peace loving nation all states despite being this variety in the culture traditions, language and all that we are all one and Lausheh very very rightly said he says you cannot find this in any other country the western world is pure transactional given take society us is a transformational nation which has transformed cultures which has transformed people and the society so we belong to that nation and me talking to you I belong to deserts in Rajasthan and you belong to the most eastern state of the country I don't find any difference in our way of thinking in our values, in our culture I was very lucky that I served in Tawang as brigade commander I was very lucky to go around all seven sisters of our country but I find that it's a complete unanimity of thought and action possibly some incidents in the past because of which some differentiations some fights have taken place but that has been fight of existence all along in all cultures across the world we are no different invaders we went through that phase and now we are back on the rails a time has come when we are on the path of growth all over again and we shall achieve our time and place of glory very soon I've been very lucky to go around the entire country meet people from diverse backgrounds diverse cultures but the kind of go for the nation the kind of love and affection for the nation is outstanding we have our flaws remember that we have our flaws we have our flaws of politics we have our flaws of corruption we have our flaws of operational part of the democracy but that doesn't mean we are any less we need to say that all mistakes learned and improved makes you great all over again and we are on the same path if I talk back I spoke of the ancient civilization ancient times that we spent in time in memorial and the times now that we have it's a difficult time of failure that we are going through but the future that I look at is going to be very bright when people start take ownership when the young generation starts taking responsibility of doing doing and giving to the country giving to my nation your nation it makes sense every time me asking my country my government, my chief minister my prime minister give me something is not the way forward is to think what is it that I can contribute to my country instead of thinking what my country can do for me that was old time socialist regimes they have gone now is the time that we do I do, I do for me last month I was doing a session with the tourism department in the northeast in Guwahati and then we said in corona times what can be done the economy is down tourism and food industry is possibly the last ones that will come up and one of the idea that I floated was that tourism has to be now locally global rather than globally local don't ask for global people to come to you create your local virtues so strong all of us in all states of the country have got extremely unique products be it agricultural products be it industries or our heritage products that we have now those products have to be brought out to the rest of the world that is what Nagaland with 20 lakh plus population can bring out that is what that is what Bengal, Rajasthan all of us can bring together our local products in the world market to say we shall beat corona we shall come up again and once again the government or the international organizations cannot come to my home home door and tell me to grow it is me, you and all of us together that can that can do Bujji, Bujji Na I hope you get in my point all that I am trying to convey is that we have had terrific outstanding history in the past we had a downfall for a while a short duration and the rise is at the horizon I can see that going I see Nagaland itself your Talimur now the football captain has had wonderful time so wrestlers from Nagaland have done tremendous contribution to not only to your own people but to the country Manipur and other areas in northeast are the heart of the country you have tremendous spirit, tremendous gold, dedication is outstanding now this dedication once comes out it is definitely for the good of the nation and those nations whose youth are bright, whose youth are thinking youth is discussing how to grow is destined to grow the nation is destined to grow so all that I wish to convey on this fabulous day to all of you all my brother Indians is that let us vow to contribute to the nation in our little way in our small way and once we start contributing it becomes a huge mass do not wait for others to come and help and start my business my job, my glory I must start doing it remember in the mountains when a you would have seen the the entire cloud of snow coming down how does this glacier comes down it starts with one particle that one particle which is destabilized picks up another particle those two pick up the third particle fourth particle and the set of particles keep gathering other particles and that one single particle comes down as a huge snow blowing down there so you and me have to be those particles that mass entire crowd our world to the site of glory and remember the best of the fish they swim against the current they simply swim against the current you remember this girl from Guwahati who is called the European rail at the age of 17 18 this girl in class 12 won the international universities 5 gold medals in short races 100, 200, 400 in Italy one girl from a humble family Himadas I am sure you all know her one girl from a very poor family changed not only her own future brought fame and glory to her parents her state and India that is the power of unity of India and if you look at the statement given for the unity of India it actually says the unity day will provide an opportunity to reaffirm the inherent strength and resilience of our nation to withstand the actual and potential threat to unity integrity and security of our motherland it speaks so well about all integrated aspects of growth of our nation so on this glorious day I extend my compliments to each one of you especially the organizations organizers who have organized the entire program the college people of my nation my country whom I love with my heart and soul all the very best wish you all the glory wish you all wonderful times and don't forget it is the hard work that brings the glory and we all are hard work loving people we can achieve anything wish you all the very best congratulations thank you thank you so much Dr. Anirudh my sincere thanks to you sir and all my young generation friends wish you all the very best I am available for any support that I can render have a wonderful time and best wishes of national unity day thank you so much over to the organizer take care thank you we are very privileged to have you and more than happy that you are in our midst today I am sure many of us were moved by your profound words I know I was moving on we have another important aspect of today's national unity day that is unity pledge so I request all of you to join us in our unity pledge please keep your mics muted but all the while join us in this pledge I solemnly pledge that I dedicate myself to preserve the unity integrity and security of the nation and also strive hard to spread this message among my fellow countrymen I take this pledge in the spirit of unification of my country which was made possible by the vision and actions of Sardar Balabai Patel I also solemnly resolve to make my own contribution to ensure internal security of my country we've almost reached the end of the show so before we conclude we have vote of thanks by assistant professor Miss Yaorefi Awongshi Miss Awongshi let me take your time thank you good afternoon everyone today as the nation celebrate and commemorate on the anniversary of Sardar Balabai Patel the department of political science Tedso College team of Naglain also joined and partake in this celebration and observation of Rashtriya Ekta Diwas and we have recommitted ourselves today to vote for the unity of nation and we have also deliberated upon the understanding of more broader and more extensive understanding of this particular unity idea of the nation and unity so I on behalf of the department of political science would like to extend heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all the participants of today's program and program and I also would like to extend a special thanks and appreciation to our guest speaker Brigadier and Dr. Dr. Hewasa Loren vice principal of Tedso College to all the other HODs of different departments of the college teachers, students, participants and the presenters who have made this program a very meaningful one I would also like to express our gratitude and appreciation to our HOD Dr. Remay and Dr. Sabur and the college management team ID team etc for making this program into a fusion and thank you everyone for making this program a success and also a meaningful one thank you once again you have a great time ahead, thank you a very touching note, thank you Ms. Awanshi on behalf of the department of political science I'd like to thank everyone for joining our webinar and in particular our guest speaker Brigadier Raj Kurohet thank you for taking your time out and joining us today and helping us celebrate National Unity Day and on an additional note I'd also like to extend our warmest appreciation for Dr. Sabur, assistant professor and Dr. Remay head of department of political science for tirelessly working to organize and successfully hold today's webinar I hope you enjoyed today's program thank you very much and have a pleasant evening thank you very much, wonderful time thank you all of you, thank you great time, thank you thank you so much, bye-bye everyone bye-bye