Our World Today in Disarray (2): In Reverse Gear?

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Our World Today in Disarray (2): In Reverse Gear?

Having fought World Wars and innumerable smaller wars for justice, fair play and the ideals of Humanity, is it becoming a world practicing and propagating ideas however unfair and petty as long as they benefit oneself? Despite all the great advances in science and technology is it becoming a self-centered and self-promoting world, going backward, ignoring the Civilized Values that can unite the peoples living on this one earth we share?

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Most Hummed Hindi Film Song...in Memory Time!

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Most Hummed Hindi Film Song...in Memory Time!

In my memory no other film song has equaled its popularity. On the streets of Bombay young and old were humming or whistling the song. Alms seekers in the suburban trains were singing it. For months! The song was from the Dilip Kumar starring movie Daag. And the song was:

Aye mere dil kahin aur chal!
Gam ki duniya se dil bhar gaya.
Dhoond le ab koi ghar naya.
Aye mere dil kahin aur chal!

Brief Rough Translation:
My heart, let's go away from this world of sorrow.
Let's find some other home. 
My heart, let's go away from this world of sorrow.

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Rainy, Rainier Days...in Funny California?!!

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Rainy, Rainier Days ...in Funny California?!!

Isn't it funny?
As though in response to withdrawal from the Climate Treaty, it seems the Sun is protesting...by withdrawing for days from Sunny California!
Or is it amazing?

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'Me Too!' Flood Exposes Poor Sex Education Worldwide

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'Me Too!' Flood Exposes Poor Sex Education Worldwide

The flood of 'Me Too' admissions and finger-pointing has brought to the surface an issue on which the world, despite great technological and scientific advances, has been negligent in dealing with.
Most parents are clueless on how to make their children aware of sex at the appropriate age and, also...on teaching them how to avoid molestation. (And, yes, get intending molesters to receive corrective education.)

Surely, ways can be found. For example, well-trained experts in schools can advise and help parents to do the right things for their children at the right time.

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Horse-Gharries, Gas-lit Streets: Bombay In My Father's Time

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Horse Gharries, Gas-lit Streets: Bombay In My Father's Time

Those were days when taxis (and the later auto rickshaws) were all one-horse gharries. The driver sat on a high seat in front. There was place behind to seat four people, two seats for two each facing each other, with a canopy that you could pull over you if you wished. In those days the street-lights were lit by piped gas. Every evening a man had to run by with a pole, a small flame at the upper end with which he would light the lamps. In the morning he would run by to snuff out the lamps.

My father was an avid book reader and believed all that was worth knowing was in books. Every evening he would go from his office in Fort area of Bombay to the Petit Library. In those days before Independence that main road in Bombay, going from Victoria Terminus to Flora Fountain was called Hornby Road. At the age of eight he enrolled me as a a member of the library. I would take a tram or train to town and walk in the arcaded pavements to reach the library. Walking from V.T. I would pass a department store called Evans Fraser on my left and on my right beyond Petit Library was a big store called Whiteaway Laidlaw's. Petit's is an amazingly ornate building with, around the spiral staircase, paintings on glass panes of the founder's family. It has a whole long floor for magazines both Indian and Western, and a whole long floor for books. I spent happy hours there reading magazines or selecting books or just gazing down from the balconies at the traffic going by on the main road or, in the side lane, children at the entrance of Cathedral and John Connon School. When my father passed away I asked the library to give me his library ledger number. Incidentally, though I moved away from Bombay many years ago, I still have a life membership at Petit's.

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Is a World of Hope possible?

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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Is a World of Hope possible?

Of course, it's possible! It can happen when the people on this one earth we share realize that the future of mankind is a common cause, regardless of the differences in language, beliefs etc. Every past revolution and adoption of democracy by countries, and formation of the United Nations have all had that aim. In practice, however, none of that has helped evolve a united humanity that shares and cares for each other!
Despite all the scientific advances, there's still a long way to go for mankind to learn Humanity! 

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Are You Discombobulated?

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Are You Discombobulated?

Are you discombobulated by prestidigitations that seem fantabulous?

No need to answer the question.
But Smile!
And forget those big words that none of us ever have need to use.
Thank you!

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