Memories of Juhu Beach: Old Bombay

Memories of Juhu Beach: Old Bombay

'If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.'

From Priya Jha's speech in the Spellbinding India Novel, Dreams of One Country (Amazon - Books)  Love lights up an audacious young woman's united youth campaign for Humane Values, inspiring India's real modernization ...to Singapore's Heights!
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When we lived in Juhu near the beach I would go there at dawn for a run, come rain or sun. I would reach the main beach, then run back to where I could see Versova. There are descriptions of the beach in Dreams of One Country - like one on the exhilaration of running against the strong monsoon wind when the rain felt as sharp as needles on my face  One beach memory was an annual pre-monsoon event, a phenomenon no one understood. One morning all kinds of sea creatures - including sharks, eels and small whales - would be thrown up on the beach and would lie there flopping, scattered all over. No one understood why. And no one would pick any of the fish to eat. They felt they could be unhealthy. So the sea creatures would lie there and rot on the beach and the beach would stink for days.

Another memory of Juhu beach is the Air India plane crash in the latter 70's - after taking off from Sahar Airport about six miles away. It crashed into the Arabian Sea just off the coast. The plane had gone to the sea-bed. All passengers and crew had died. The plane had then floated up, and it could be seen from the beach on the horizon. Crowds of spectators came every day to see it...till it was removed for investigations into the cause of the disaster.

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Going In Style: A Fun Movie!

'If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.'

From Priya Jha's speech in the Spellbinding India Novel, Dreams of One Country (Amazon - Books)  Love lights up an audacious young woman's united youth campaign for Humane Values that inspires India's real modernization ...to Singapore's Heights!
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Going In Style: A Fun Movie!

It's a long time since I saw a movie in a theater. And this was it. Going in Style. I found it outrageously funny. The three oldies making up the main cast of the film are Alan Arkin, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman. The location is New York city. Their bank wants their deposits, but are very unhelpful to them when they are in need. So they decide to teach the bank a lesson - by stealing from the bank what cash they need, in such a way that the bank has no idea how the money was heisted and cannot trace it - even though the FBI is called in.
The action goes crazy! Fun all the way till Finis!

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India's Happy Crow Song!

India's Happy Crow Song!

'If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.'

'From A 'New India' Novel, Dreams of One Country (Amazon - Books): India Rises! An amazing young woman's campaign for Humaneness-Honesty ushers India's New Dawn 
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As never before India's citizens continue to dump their garbage on the street, preferably away from their houses and nearer a neighbor's. If it's open garbage the crows (we'll leave pariah dogs out of this story) have easy access. If it's in plastic bags, their first morning job is to peck open those bags. And then the Crow Talk begins.
Crow 1: 'Anything special today?'
Crow 2: 'Yaw! Yaw! Here's some rotten pulao!'
Crow3: Naw! Naw! This is better. Fungated cake!'
Crow 4: 'Any rotten fruit? Doc Crow says fruit are good for health.'
Crow 5: 'You got it, brawther! Here's some completely rotten papayaw!'
And all the Crows sing in chorus: Yaw! Yaw! Yaw! What a happy dawn! Oh, what a happy dawn! Awl thanks to the Crow-loving folk of Indiaw!   

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Chaos Country!

Chaos Country!

'If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.'

'From A 'New India' Novel, Dreams of One Country (Amazon - Books): India Rises! An amazing young woman's campaign for Humaneness-Honesty ushers India's New Dawn 
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A completely ill-planned, disorganized demonetization campaign by the country's central bank is preventing people across India from withdrawing money from their own bank accounts to pay for their daily roti and rice. Call it Chaos Country!

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First International Time-Wasting Olympics

First International Time-Wasting Olympics

'If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.'

'From A 'New India' Novel, Dreams of One Country (Amazon - Books): India Rises! An amazing young woman's campaign for Humaneness-Honesty ushers India's New Dawn.

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Preparations have been going on for the first ever International Time-Wasting Olympics and the games are about to begin. Intense competition is expected from Fancy Phone Tap-Tappers, Expert Face-Driifters and Twitterbugs to decide the Gold, Silver and Bronze in prolific Time-Wasting. The hope of Organizers of this unique Olympics is that a few great winners will be discovered - who waste all twenty four hours of their day! Every day!
Astonishingly, India, a country with one of the highest poverty levels, has more competitors in this Olympic arena than the most developed countries. Bravo, India! Go for Gold!

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Will Lefty Handshakes Modernize India?

Will Lefty Handshakes Modernize India?

Go east, west, north, south. Anywhere in this country, in deals involving officialdom or their minions, the right hand makes the payment of actual dues. A lefty handshake passes on the lubricant money that is required to ensure the deals go through. Without those lefty handshakes (or shakedowns?) the deals get bogged down in unexpected complications and even, yes, your files may be lost forever. Can a country where such bribery is accepted a normal every day fact of life develop into a civilized modern democracy?

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Essential for that is the kind of India inspired by the amazing young woman's campaign for Humaneness-Honesty in Dreams of One Country (Amazon - Books): A 'New India' Novel,  India Rises!

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India's Top-Rank Sports!

India's Top-Rank Sports...and Pastimes!

If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.'

'From A 'New India' Novel, Dreams of One Country (Amazon - Books): India Rises! An amazing young woman's campaign for Humaneness-Honesty ushers India's New Dawn.

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None to beat cricket, but two other all-too popular sports - though without the benefit of any organized high publicity competitions like the IPL - are Showing Off and Hoodwinking others for profit (or Swindling). Hope they start big money competitions like ISOL and IHL!!!

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