Mantras for Positive Ageing by 50 Eminent People

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Sushma Seth and other Fifty Eminent Indians aged over 75 share their ‘Mantras for Positive Ageing’ in new book – CineBlitz

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Would you like to be positive, productive, and graceful in your old age? If so, Mantras for Positive Ageing is for you.

The first section has contributions by leading researchers.

In the second section, eminent personalities share their mantra to ensure that age is not debilitating but positive and impactful:

– Dr Karan Singh (erstwhile royalty from Kashmir, politician, diplomat, writer and scholar)

– Devki Jain (gender economist)

– Fali Nariman (India’s foremost constitutional lawyer)

– Margaret Alva (career politician and former Governor)

– Sushma Seth (acclaimed theatre and firm actor)

– Mani Shankar Aiyer (career politician and diplomat)

– Syeda Hameed (writer speaker and member Planning Commission of India).

Reviews, Interviews, and Mentions

Editors of Mantras of Positive Ageing:-

Dr. V. Mohini Giri: One of India’s most outstanding gender rights activists, and advocate for the vulnerable and less privileged: Founder Chairperson of the Guild for Service, a New Delhi-based social service organization established in 1972; Founding member of the Women’s Initiative for Peace in South Asia; Founder of The War Widows Association; Chairperson of India’s National Commission for Women; Chair of the Review Committee on the Policy on Older Persons. Recognising her immense contributions, in 2007 the Government of India awarded her the Padma Bhushan.

Meera Khanna: Trustee & Executive Vice-President of the Guild of Service; member of the Committee steering a global treaty to ban violence against women; helped create ‘The Last Woman First’, a global alliance for empowering under-privileged women; Consultant to the Indian Government’s High Level Committee on Status of Women, member of the Supreme Court of India’s Expert Committee on Widows; poet, whose work has been adapted for Bharatanatyam; and author of In A State Of Violent Peace, and of Breaking Paths.

The Guild of Service is a national non-profit organisation which runs a home for elderly widows, steers national policy on the elderly, and advocates internationally on issues affecting the elderly.

On the occasion of the Guild’s golden jubilee, here are the lived experiences of the elderly which generate wisdom dispelling the bogey of ageing, and emphasizing the skill of ageing positively, productively and gracefully.