About Living - Burns, Ian
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A grandfather reminisces about his conversations with a wise man (from the Punjab), about his grand wish as a boy to play cricket against Australia. Many, if not most, of the remembered conversations contained material that was puzzling to him, and not much less so as a relatively old man. However, the wish became reality, and led to a lifetime relationship with the land Down Under.

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A grandfather reminisces about his conversations with a wise man (from the Punjab), about his grand wish as a boy to play cricket against Australia. Many, if not most, of the remembered conversations contained material that was puzzling to him, and not much less so as a relatively old man. However, the wish became reality, and led to a lifetime relationship with the land Down Under.
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This story is the final of three set in India and Australia, beginning around 1950 and following through to today. Ranga Plays Australia tells the original story, in the third person. It had its origin in a suggestion by an old friend that I write a book about India, cricket, and Australia - surely an irresistible combination. But I am not Indian, though I did have boyhood Indian playmates and have visited India several times, so my concern resolved around writing authentically, where an Indian reader would not be able to take me to task. Luckily, I was introduced to Bhaktavatsala Moola, an eminent movie producer and widely-read in English literature. He was also a protege of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Bhakta rode shotgun on me, chapter by chapter. Looking back on the story, I found that I was very fond of Ranga's guru and his many wise sayings, such that I put these together in a second book, The Wisdom of Harkishen Singh, which was complemented with photos of an earlier India. Now this book, which shows the context of some of Harkishen's sayings, and spends more time with Ranga's later life, with more attention to his Australian experience. This is told in the first person.