Easiest Bloopers We Commi!!

 

                                              Easiest Bloopers We Commit!!

There's nothing many of us find easier to do than...Jump to conclusions! And then, of course, to act on such hastily jumped-at conclusions to complicate our own lives....and even the lives of others!

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Books by Drs Ms  Jagjit, John Daniel: Doctor At Home: EastWest Books: Family Health Fitness Tips. Dreams of One Country (Amazon Kindle Novel: e- and home-delivered print copies): A far-visioned woman's campaign unites youth to power India's talent-led ascent...to the shining developed nations!

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Memories: Bombay 1960s: Switching Careers?!!

  Memories: Bombay 1960s: Switching Careers?!!

In the early1960s, when  I went back home to Bombay from C.M.C., Ludhiana, for summer holidays I saw a Times of India ad for trainee journalists. After India's Independence the British owners of Times, Bennett Coleman, was bought over by India's Sahu Jain group. I sent in copies of stories, humor etc. I had published in newspapers and magazines, including the Times. As a reluctant medical student, that was the kind of work I was busy with while missing classes. They called me for an interview.

My interviewer, Samir Jain, said right away that I was selected. I told him I was actually in the third year of medical college and I had come in the hope I could get a regular column in the Times. He said he could not decide on that, but I could surely join as a trainee. There ended my twin career hopes!   

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Books by Drs Ms  Jagjit, John Daniel: Doctor At Home: EastWest Books: Family Health Fitness Tips. Dreams of One Country (Amazon Kindle Novel: e- and home-delivered print copies): A far-visioned woman's campaign unites youth to power India's talent-led ascent...to the shining developed nations!

 Click here to preview Dreams of One Country: https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-One-Country-World-class-Modernization/dp/152098944X/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmrnull_3?keywords=dreams+of+one+country+jagjit&qid=1554134768&s=gateway&sr=8-3-fkmrnull                                                                                      

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Memories: Bombay 1950s: Ex-Sighting Oxford University!

                                     Memories: Bombay 1950s: Ex-Sighting Oxford University!

  After finishing school from Antonio Da Silva, Dadar, Bombay, in 1953, I joined the science course at Wilson College near Chowpatty Beach. I had no interest in science studies. I joined only on my father's insistence. A common belief those days was that for any ordinary family to come up the children had to seek careers in medicine, engineering or law. My English professor at Wilson was John Lyle. He graded my first essay as excellent. He read the second and said, 'John, why are you here? You should major in English. You can then get a scholarship to Oxford. I'll introduce you to the British Council's head here, Mr Voden. He'll help you.' I met Mr Voden. And I told him why my father would not allow me to major in English. Then I gave him my handwritten novel and asked if he could help me to publish it  He read a page.or two. It was a Wodehouse-imitation novel - with English characters who arrive by steamship in Bombay. I had seen a steamer only from the docks. Nor had I any direct knowledge of what I described in the story. Mr Voden smiled: 'Sorry. You must write of what you really know...Or...a fairy tale!' 

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Books by Drs Ms  Jagjit, John Daniel: Doctor At Home: EastWest Books: Family Health Fitness Tips. Dreams of One Country (Amazon Kindle Novel: e- and home-delivered print copies): A far-visioned woman's campaign unites youth to power India's talent-led ascent...to the shining developed nations!

 Click here to preview Dreams of One Country: https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-One-Country-World-class-Modernization/dp/152098944X/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmrnull_3?keywords=dreams+of+one+country+jagjit&qid=1554134768&s=gateway&sr=8-3-fkmrnull                                                                                      

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Memories 1940s: Meeting Bollywood's Star Singer!

                                 Memories 1940s: Meeting Bollywood's Star Singer!

We lived on the 3rd floor of a 5-storey building on Dadar Main Road, Bombay. With three film studios Ranjit, Ranjit Movietone and Shree Sound close by - that was Bollywood then. Living with his family on a lower floor of the building was Mrinal, a youth who tailored clothes for people in the Hindi film industry. I think I was around nine when Mrinal invited me to watch the recording of a Hindi film song. I went with him to a recording studio in Dadar West, a few miles from home. I heard the great Rafi sing to the musical accompaniment conducted by the film's music director. After the recording was over Rafi stepped out of the recording room. Mrinal handed him a package of new garments and introduced me to him. The singing star shook my hand. And, of course, I was thrilled!
Rafi had great natural talent and an amazing range. A song in the film Baiju Bawra, I recall, virtually lifted the roof off the cinema hall.  

Books by Drs Ms  Jagjit, John Daniel: Doctor At Home: EastWest Books: Family Health Fitness Tips. Dreams of One Country (Amazon Kindle Novel: e- and home-delivered print copies): A far-visioned woman's campaign unites youth to power India's talent-led ascent...to the shining developed nations!

 Click here to preview Dreams of One Country: https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-One-Country-World-class-Modernization/dp/152098944X/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmrnull_3?keywords=dreams+of+one+country+jagjit&qid=1554134768&s=gateway&sr=8-3-fkmrnull                                                                               

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Memories 1956: Brabourne Stadium, Bombay: Australia Test

                        Memories 1956: Brabourne Stadium, Bombay: Australia Test                           

Brabourne Stadium was in those days the home of CCI, the Cricket Club of India. All important cricket matches including Tests were played there. So that was where in 1956 I watched an India-Australia Test and saw Neil Harvey score a century. Named after Lord Brabourne, a British governor, the North Stand of the stadium housed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquarters. In 2006 the BCCI was moved to the  nearby, newly-built Wankhede Stadium. Big names in Indian cricket included, far as I remember, spinners Subash Gupte, Vinoo Mankad, and Jasu Patel, and batsman Polly Umrigar.

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Books by Drs Ms  Jagjit and John Daniel: Doctor At Home: EastWest Books: Fitness Tips For Today's Proactive Family. Dreams of One Country (Amazon Kindle: e-Novel) How youth unite to launch India's ascent...to join the world's most progressive nations! Click below to preview Dreams of One Country.

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The Selfish, Petty-Minded Ruin Countries!

                                                      The Selfish, Petty-Minded Ruin Countries!

Yes! Any country. Under-developed  Developed. Even highly successful countries. They revel in pettiness to satisfy their narrow-minded, short-sighted fancies. They subvert democracy, uncaring for the future of countries. They use leadership to satisfy their petty-mindedness. They twist truth and get thrills targeting sections of the people on the basis of differences like ethnicity. Dividing their people to indulge in mean acts is their delight and achievement. Such pettiness can hinder a talented country's ascent to the world's developed nations. A key message for such immature leaders is: Stop Trying To Fool The World! Above All Remember: Do Not Do Unto Others What You Do Not Want Others To Do Unto You! That principle can unite peoples of any country. Further it can unite humanity: to strive on together in peace to build a better world for all mankind.

Dreams of One Country by Ms. Jagjit Daniel (Amazon Kindle: e-Novel: Set in fairly recent history, the story of a youth campaign that unites the people and launches India's ascent to join the most progressive nations of the world....thus lighting a highway for all developing countries!

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Covid 19's One Unique Blessing?!!

                                            Covid 19's One Unique Blessing?!!

Has Covid 19 only hurt the world? Hasn't it done something to benefit people in countries around the world? Hasn't it helped identify immature leaders...by the havoc such leaders unleashed by haphazard responses to the pandemic?

In contrast note the responses of mature leaders - the overall caution, reliance on scientific experts etc. - that curbed the virus's toll in countries they headed!

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Dreams of One Country by Ms. Jagjit Daniel (Amazon Kindle: e-Novel: Thrilling story of Priya Jha's campaign that unites youth and inspires India's ascent to join the world's most progressive nations...thus lighting the way for all developing countries!
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