Story of Freedom

Let me begin with a prime point that this book is not just about "History of Independence movement", it's more about the stories around it. After all, why am I saying this? It's essential to know that.

This book has been written keeping in mind the need for those youngsters of our country who are preparing for civil services examination, those who want a factual and in-depth understanding of the Indian Independence movement. For this, I felt the necessity to move away from the intellectual style of writing history and adapt to storytelling or narrative method which we are conventionally used to, which we have listened to during our childhood days and imbibed them in our way. History, which most of the people, not including myself here, find dull and boring, would be presented in a way more interesting manner here. To master any subject the first step is to create an interest in that subject. Once that happens the other steps are easier to get to

Dr. Vijay Aggarwal, who was the former Secretary of the former President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, is a civil service officer of the 1983 batch.Dr. Agarwal took voluntary retirement to devote his time to writing and guiding the candidates preparing for IAS. Your 'PadhoToh AisePadho', 'Student and Time Management', 'Student and Mind Power,' and 'Student and Personal Development' books are very popular.The book 'How will you become IAS' has set the record of popularity. Your career-related articles published in 'Rojgar Samachar' and 'RojgarNirman' are very popular for a long time. Many of your thought-provoking lex are published in all the important newspapers and magazines of the country on various national and international issues. Dr. Agrawal has beenespecially guiding the IES examinee for the past 30 years. He is also the guest faculty of many universities and national level Seshan institutions.

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