Bless You Bollywood! (ePub)

I was born in Lahore as the youngest sibling in a large well-off family of Punjab, where father, the sole provider, worked as the chief representative of Oxford University Press, London. I had just finished high school, winning merit scholarship from Punjab University, scoring very high marks when the family was forced to leave Lahore, which became a part of Pakistan after India’s partition in 1947. The family moved to New Delhi to start from scratch, where after graduating with very high grades in law and MBA from Delhi University, I started my career as a corporate executive with Godrej, one of the most reputed companies in India, then the biggest manufacturers of bank lockers, steel cupboards, and furniture. After working there for the first twenty years of my corporate career, I moved on to avail better opportunities in other big companies, taking retirement after a well-rewarded service of over forty years in the corporate sector of India. In the postretirement period, I worked for a while as deputy director (publications) with Institute of Marketing and Management, New Delhi. Side by side, I passionately pursued my hobby for writing and remained a regular contributor to newspapers in India and later in USA. My “Letters to the Editor” in the Hindustan Times, New Delhi, and San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, received great respect, as these were invariably published under three to four column headlines or placed prominently in a box. I moved to the United States in the ’90s along with my wife, Inderjeet, former principal of senior secondary government girls’ school in Delhi, to be with our only son Alok, settled here as a prominent software engineer in Silicon Valley.

In the United States, I took to what I wanted to do all my life, writing a book. Many true happenings and characters I came across in life, including interaction with former US president, Bill Clinton, inspired my first book, Paradise Lost and Found, published in the USA. It’s a family saga

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