New Year's Song: 2018

New Year's Song: 2018

At Sunrise of New Year's Day 2018

We shall resolve to uphold,

To uphold a New World of Hope:

Of Nations and People

At Peace,

By Humane Values united,

On this One Earth

We have all inherited!

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Dreams of One Country (Amazon): Moviescopic India Novel of Our Time! Tender love story inspires youth's campaign on Universal Values that elevates India...to the elite among developed nations! Fast-paced, Heartwarming 'India Rises' Novel!

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Our World Today...In Disarray?!

Read Ms. Jagjit's Dreams of One Country: Sparkling novel! On how a unique youth campaign for Universal Values, inspired by a Moviescopic Love Story, powers an Asian country floundering in pettiness to rise as an exemplary Super-Modern Nation!

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Our World Today...In Disarray?!

Today, despite all the great advances in science and technology, the world is in disarray! In this 21st Century - instead of further progress in civilizing mankind - selfishness, malice, pettiness seem to have spread, dividing and disuniting people. Even untruths are propagated as facts...for selfish gain. The world seems to have gone a long way backward, discarding the Values that Civilize and Unite people on this one earth we share!

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From Pen-Friends to Social Media!

From Pen-Friends to Social Media!

When I was young the magazines and Sunday newspapers had columns giving the names, age and addresses of people seeking pen-friends. A close family friend went to Canada to train in nursing administration. On her return she give me the name of a girl who wanted a pen-friend in India. I wrote to her and we corresponded. I would write and post an airmail letter and it would be a month before I got her reply.
Compare that to the virtually immediate contacts among people on today's social media! But the difference was that the contacts were not as casual as on the social media. My pen-friend and I wrote to each other about our school, families, sports and pastimes.
Besides, the social media links can go out to millions. And that is where we have recently discovered how they can be misused in multiple ways!     

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Dreams of One Country (Amazon): Moviescopic India Novel of Our Time! Tender love story inspires youth's campaign on Universal Values that elevates India...to the elite among developed nations! Fast-paced, Heartwarming 'India Rises' Novel!

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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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