Shenoi, a civil engineer and MBA, rose to the rank of Deputy Director-General of Works in the Indian Defence Service of Engineers. He has also been a member of HUDCO’s advisory board and of the planning team for Navi Mumbai. After retirement he has been helping NGOs in employment-oriented training, writing articles related to all aspects of housing, urban settlements, infrastructure, project and facility management and advising several companies on these issues. His email id is
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In the 1940s, I was a young boy living in Mysore, which was a Princely State at that time.
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John, born 1926 in the U.S., got his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics after studying at Yale and Northwestern universities. He lived and worked in Samoa, Laos, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Philippines, and Thailand for various U.S. development agencies and foundations, was a visiting scholar at MIT, Harvard and the East-West Center, served as U.S. Member of the South Pacific Research Council, on several boards and undertook consultancies for the Aga Khan Foundation and international agencies until he retired in 2000. He lives with his wife, Catharine, near Washington, D.C.
 Six decades after the fact it has not been easy to write this memoir recalling my early impressions of India. I have tried to present an accurate account of the places, people, and events as I remember them.
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Valarie is a writer, filmmaker, and lecturer who has become a brave new voice on race and religion, hate and healing in post-Sept 11th America. A third-generation Sikh American, Valarie wrote and produced the critically acclaimed documentary film Divided We Fall (2008), which chronicles hate violence in the US after Sept 11, 2001. She earned bachelor's degrees in religion and international relations at Stanford University, master's in theological studies at Harvard Divinity School, and is now a student at Yale Law School.
Editor's note: This is a slightly edited version of an article on the author's blog. http://valariekaur.blogspot.com/2008/11/papa-jis-funeral.html.
Papa Ji was my mother's father. His wisdom and love made me who I am - and inspired Divided We Fall.
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About Me
 - JAI GOPAL SETHI
- I was born before partition at KOHAT (in NWFP, PAKISTAN). After partition I along with my family migrated to Delhi. I completed higher secondary from Ramjas Higher Secondary School No.5 Karol Bagh, New Delhi in 1958. I did Pre-Engineering from Delhi Polytechnic, Kashmere Gate New Delhi in 1959.(NOW IT IS CALLED DCE ,DELHI COLLEGE OF ENHINEERING) I then completed my B.E.(Civil) in Year 1962 from University Of Roorkee. After my Engineering I joined as an Assistant Engineer (class II gazette post) in UP IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT through UP PSC. I worked in tube well department and construction projects dealing with Heavy Earth moving machines. I retired as Superintending Engineer. I was posted in several location around UP including Mainpuri(Lower Ganga canal Division) Aligarh, Atrauli, Allahabad, Meerut,(TubewllDivisions)Jhansi, Roorkee, Lucknow, Gorakhpur (civil Canal Divisions and later on Canal circles) etc. Now I am settled in Saket New Delhi and am the President of M-Block (NE) Saket Cultural and Niwasi Welfare Association, New Delhi. I also served as honorary secretary of the Association for 4 years. It is my endeavor to serve humanity at grass root level.
I am writing this story when we were facing the hardships after the partition. After Shahbad Markanda (district Ambala) we all shifted to Agra as our cousin Tayaji used to live there. In Agra did not have any place to live we all put up in the deserted house in the CHAKKI PARA near Bus stop and opposite of Agra RED FORT. This was half broken and there was a leather market on the ground floors and the residents on the first floor. We started living there but faced hardships at every step of the way.
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