A World of Hope

Heart-lifting 'India Rises' Novel! Dreams of One Country (Amazon): Youth's unique campaign on Humane Values amid crises, inspired by a Moviescopic Love Story, powers India's ascent as an Elite Modern Nation!

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A World of Hope

It's amazing how much man has advanced in science, in his understanding of the earth and the universe.
And it's amazing that - despite those advances - how disunited, how lacking in common purpose, how disharmonious the inheritors of this one earth of ours is today.
Despite the centuries gone and the lessons of history, people continue to imagine their own superiority over others - their superiority in thinking. And in their beliefs. They continue to look down on others and spread divisiveness and disharmony.
People have still to realize that all the differences in appearance, language etc. are just the result of where they live on this common earth.
People have still to accept that a world of hope can only be built by sharing and caring for each other, and helping each other in times of need.

Indeed, A World of Hope will be a world united by its inhabitants...who share and care for each other, and help each other in times of need. And also, yes, protect the health of the earth we share.

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JD's Unknown Proverbs - 2 and 3

JD's Unknown Proverbs - 2 and 3

Few pastimes can be more aimless, more time-wasting...and more self-satisfying...than showing-off!

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Anyone who can wave his hands both ways is eligible to become a traffic cop!

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Dreams of One Country, Ms Jagjit Daniel's MovieScopic India Novel, now listed in GoodReads, also has some memorable scenes of Bombay and India in British times and World War II. The book my wife Jagjit and I worked on together is now available for Print Copy delivered to you by Amazon - apart from e-download. Dreams is a story set in the midst of historic national upheavals like the Emergency, of a Love-lit youth campaign that launches India's delayed, talent-led ascent...to join the world's elite modern nations.

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My Railway Song of British Times

My Railway Song of British Times

From the long common verandah on the third floor of our 5-storey tenement building on Dadar Main Road I - as a child - could look past the houses of Kutra Wadi to rail lines of the Great Indian Peninsular or G.I.P. Railway and beyond to the lines of the Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway. (After Independence the names were changed to Central and Western Railways respectively.) One of my pastimes as a child was waiting on the verandah to watch my father return from his job at Ballard Estate in the Fort area of Bombay. And to while away the time (and not get worried when he was late) I would the watch the trains going back-and-forth and chant in sing-song: 'G.I.P. Railway! B.B. and C.I. Railway! G.I.P.......'  

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Dreams of One Country, Ms Jagjit Daniel's MovieScopic India Novel. Te book my wife Jagjit and I worked on together also has some memorable scenes of Bombay and India in British times and World War II. It's now available for Print Copy delivered to you by Amazon - apart from e-download. Dreams is a story set in the midst of historic national upheavals like the Emergency, of a Love-lit youth campaign that launches India's delayed, talent-led ascent...to join the world's most progressive nations.

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JD'S UNKNOWN PROVERBS - 1

J.D.'s UNKNOWN PROVERBS - 1

You can put anyone into a suit and boots,

                                                   But that doesn't make him a Gentleman!

                                         

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Dreams of One Country, Ms Jagjit Daniel's MovieScopic India Novel. Now listed in GoodReads, the book my wife Jagjit and I worked on together also has some memorable scenes of Bombay and India in British times and World War II. It's now available for Print Copy delivered to you by Amazon - apart from e-download. Dreams is a story set in the midst of historic national upheavals like the Emergency, of a Love-lit youth campaign that launches India's delayed, talent-led ascent...to join the world's most progressive nations.

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The Girls Who Saved Kerala!

The Girls Who Saved Kerala!

In south-western corner of India is the state of Kerala. It's evergreen, densely populated. It was one of the poorest states (though with the highest literacy rate) at Independence. The men who got some education and managed to get jobs in the Gulf States brought in money they had earned abroad. But the real saviors of the state were the girls. After school they went for nursing as they wouldn't have to spend more on education. After qualifying as nurses they applied for jobs abroad. There was great demand for qualified nurses around the world. And Kerala's nurses went to work all over the world, including Europe and America. They came home to marry, but settled down abroad. Wherever they went they had to learn the local local language. And they spoke it with a distinct Malayali (Malayalam is their native language) accent!
The credit for saving India's poorest state from poverty must mainly go to the amazing nurses from Kerala 

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Dreams of One Country, Ms Jagjit Daniel's MovieScopic India Novel. Now listed in GoodReads, the book my wife Jagjit and I worked on together has some memorable scenes of Bombay and India in British times and World War II. It's now available for Print Copy delivered to you by Amazon - apart from e-download. Dreams is a story set in the midst of historic national upheavals like the Emergency, of a Love-lit youth campaign, based on the country's true talent potential, that launches India's ascent...to join the world's progressive nations.

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