STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Union Minister of State in PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh on Thursday released Dr G.K Gupta’s Mantra for Good Health at an impressive function here.
The function was organised by Samparti— an organisation of Writers in Exile in collaboration with Utpal Publications, New Delhi.
Dr Jitendra was the Chief Guest on the occasion while Dr R.L Bhat President Samprati and a well known writer was Guest of Honour.
President Panun Kashmir Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, Dr Roshan Saraf and former Advocate General, R.S Jamwal besides the author were also on dais. The Utpal Publications was represented by Surinder Nath Koul on the occasion.
Dr Jitendra, who had also written forward of the book, highly acclaimed it and said that he is hopeful that it will be understood by people easily.
He said book deals on various aspects of how to keep diseases at bay and how to live a long and healthy life. It deals on various aspects which affect ones health such as smoking, drinking and other bad habits while tells about in detail about the advantage of yoga, good habits and walk and Pranayam.
He further said the book will work as a rejoinder to those who left smoking. One more inspiration by this book is that today there are more pensioners in India than working people and India spents more on pension than on salaries as the life span has increased.
Now people live a retired life for more period than their service period and the book can help how best this retired period can be used. The people who want to make compromises with life after retirement can use Dr Gupta book as an example, he added.
Dr Singh said instead of becoming a liability on children one has an active way to spent his retired life.
Dr Singh said being a health related book it does not need more publicity as people are attracted to it as health book has always relevance. He said whether author survives or not but the books survives always.
Dr R.L Bhat, while appreciating the efforts of Dr. Gupta, said the book can serve as a best guide for people how to maintain a good health. He said such books are more relevant in this fast life when people are facing the problems due to change in life style and eating habits.
Dr Bhat, who had also written his comments on the book, had highly acclaimed it. He said the people should read such books as it is a valuable book carrying very good piece of advice of how to maintain a good health and live along life.
Dr G.K Gupta also spoke on the occasion and said that the book is a complete health guide for a family. The book is based on scientific principles, he added.
Advocate R.S Jamwal and Dr Roshan Saraf also spoke on the occasion and hailed the efforts of Dr Gupta.
The stage was managed by Pardeep Kaul a well known writer and scholar.
