Last night I gave the opening invocation at a meeting of the VHP in the Swami Narayan Temple in Norwalk CA.. The guest speaker, Ashok Singal, was the head of the VHP in India. Every temple in Southern, CA was … Continue reading
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I remember how Bhaktivinoda described the first installation of gas street lighting and the introduction of the telegraph in Calcutta. To read about these historic events in the pages of his autobiography (Svalikhita Jivani) was fascinating for me. Today I … Continue reading
I now step backwards in time to fill in some of the gaps of my story by talking about my early life with my parents and grandparents. My father was born in 1924 in Toronto, Canada. He rarely speaks of … Continue reading
I remember lying in bed late one evening listening to FM radio. I was 16. In those days FM radio was new and many stations were experimenting with different formats. I was listening to an “underground” FM rock station. This … Continue reading
Today we went to the Bengal National Library and had a big find. There are two Kedar Nath Dattas! Both worked as Magistrates for the British! One was born in 1838 and the other in 1840. We pulled the service … Continue reading