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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Army Ants: The Bravest of the Brave!

Army Ants: The Bravest of the Brave!

Here and there - in the kitchen, bathroom and elsewhere - you'll see a single, small dull black ant going back and forth - seemingly aimless.  It's not aimless. It's the army ant - on a mission, a reconnaissance mission for his compatriots. He is looking for safe areas where food (esp. sugar) is available. And once he goes back with his report, the ant battalions will march in, an orderly line of them, heading for the area recommended by the brave army ant. The army ant risks his life for his brothers and sisters! I know. because I squash them on sight! 

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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 that launches India's talent-led ascent...to join the world's elite, progressive nations.

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Rail Travel from Bombay in British Times

Rail Travel from Bombay in British Times

Two or three times in my childhood my mother took me by train from Bombay to visit our hometowns in Kerala - which was then a kingdom called Travancore. There was no direct train. We first went south-east to Madras (now known as Chennai) and then changed from Madras Central to Egmore Station some distance away to get the train to go south-west to reach Travancore. We had to wait a whole day. On one occasion I I was 5 or 6 and my sister, a toddler, was ill all the way. Like other railway stations Egmore had an exclusive European waiting room and Indian waiting-rooms. Luckily, the Station Master at Egmore was my mother's relation. Though we had only second class passes - which my father got working for Bombay Port Trust - the Station Master put us in the 1st Class waiting room where my mother could take better care of my sister.

Then came the scenic journey to Travancore, cutting through the eastern ghats and then the western ghats to reach Punalur. There we got off to take a public bus home, another half day's journey.

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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 that launches India's talent-led ascent...to join the world's progressive nations.

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WHY BIRDS GIVE UP TWITTERING!!!

WHY BIRDS GIVE UP TWITTERING!!!

Twittering came naturally to birds. Part of their lifestyle! It was always a united sharing of high-spirits, the joy of being alive, of seeing another day! By twittering they spread happiness through the clan!

Then humans got into the act. And man began twittering all kinds of messages, too often spreading neither high spirits nor joy. Too often spreading the opposites of high spirits and good natured rejoicing!

Since man took over twittering in his own style, the birds are giving up! All they can do now is watch man in aghast silence!

Sad, sad birds!

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