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.  

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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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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.

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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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Covid-19's Wake-Up Call For Mankind!

  Covid-19's Wake-Up Call For Mankind!

Does the Covid 19 virus carry a message for all mankind? Is it saying: I have traveled around the world without discriminating, crossing all barriers both natural and man-made, wreaking havoc. I have done it to drive home a vital message for humanity. Listen to me, peoples of the world!
Whatever I, the virus you call Covid 19, is doing is meant to emphasize a lesson you haven't learnt despite thousands of years of history and fantastic advances in knowledge, science, exploration. Stop wasting your precious time and energy to promote malice or deceit. Stop dividing peoples for selfish short-term gains. Stop pettiness and heartlessness. Learn, learn that this world is one. All humanity is one. Don't discriminate against each other on the basis of climate-caused differences in appearances, or differences in faith, beliefs, languages, attire etc. This world belongs to all humanity. Unite! Strive in peace, countries helping each other to develop and progress. To build a better world for all mankind!*

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'Down With The Viva!': Revisiting Published Humor - 1'

'Down With The Viva!': Revisiting Published Humor - 1

(Excerpted\from my article published in the Sunday Times of India, 1st July, 1962)

I have an antipathy for any viva voces which go beyond pleasant preliminaries like "How do you do?" and "What is your name?"
What about medical college vivas where they ask all kinds of technical questions? That was what I was in for when my father decided, without any referendum worth the name, that I had what it took to be a doctor. Well, I'll admit I did not always get cold feet at the mere thought of a viva. All that began from my encounter with a sarcastic professor of physiology.
There is a friend of mine who, ever since he developed a faint mistiness above the upper lip has been betting on horses. He has told me about the sinister tendency of any horse on which he has bet his 'all' to bolt in the general direction of the stables shortly before the race starts, presumably on a mission like warning Son of Genghis Khan to keep his dirty paws off Sweet Bathsheba while he - Handsome Cavalier - was away at the races. True it is that I developed a similar tendency to bolt off at a tangent  and introduce into the discussion more worldly matters. In my case the escapism started from my first viva with a sarcastic physiology professor, a loud-mouthed character, who threatened to clout me on the head if I was nervous. My teeth chattered. He told me to stop it because the room was shaking too much. His first question was about liver functions. I told him I had a pen-friend in Liverpool. And my diversionary answers to three more questions infuriated him more. He asked a "last chance" question: "Tell me the effects of raised venous pressure." I answered: "Venus de Milo...Venus, the planet. Sir, man will soon be walking on the plains of Venus." He wished I was there and added, "Young man, what you know of physiology is not worth knowing. Out!" There ended my first medical viva.
All I wish to add here is that the professor's premature retirement had nothing to do with me.

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Flying (Saucers And) Teacups!: Revisiting Old Humor...1

Flying (Saucers And) Teacups!: Revisiting Old Humor - 1

I wanted to blog abridged versions of humor I had published in the news media, starting with an edit page 'middle' in The Times of India some time in the 1960s titled Flying Teacups Over Gironde! That article was actually written in response to news reports of the sighting of flying saucers from different parts of the world. I felt those were either people mis-sighting planes, rockets etc. or publicity stunts. In light hearted response I wrote an imaginary news report of people sighting teacups (with handles) flying over an area of France called Gironde.
However, I couldn't find that article among my cuttings. So I plan to continue this blog series with my other media published humor.       

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