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This is the story of an ordinary person caught in the Charybdis of extraordinary situations- the brutal Japanese regime in Malaysia, communal killings in Sri Lanka, tribal warfare in Sierra Leone, coup d' tat in Liberia; leaping through time, colliding with different cultures, crossing oceans and continents and, in the twister of all the turbulence all the while in the hunt for jobs to keep the home fires burning.
K.B. Chandra Raj was born and raised in Malaysia with firm roots in Sri Lanka (once known as Serendib and later Ceylon) is an accountant by training. He served a five-year period of articles with the prestigious firm of chartered accountants, Turquand Youngs and Company and has worked as chief accountant in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone as Accountant General, Liberia and the United States of America. Chandra and his wife Siva have been blessed with two loving grandchildren – granddaughter Neela Chandraraj and grandson Deeran Vermeij. He presently lives in tranquil retirement with his wife Siva in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.A. His seven previous publications: 1. For the Love of Shakespeare 2. Your Sense of Humor – Don’t Leave Home Without It 3. Mining my own life 4. Reminiscing in tranquility of a time long gone by 5. Itty Bitty Tiny Tall Tales 6. Rhyme to Pass the Time 7. Poems Please
K.B.Chandra Raj was born and raised in Malaysia is an accountant by training. He served a five year period of articles with the prestigious firm of chartered accountants, Turquand Youngs and Company and has worked as chief accountant in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone as Accountant General, Liberia and the United States of America. Chandra and Siva have been blessed with two ebullient grandchildren - granddaughter Neela Chandraraj and grandson Deeran Vermeij. He presently lives in tranquil retirement with his wife Siva in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.A. His three previous publications: For the love of Shakespeare Your sense of humor - Don't leave home without it Mining my own life
K.B.Chandra Raj was born and raised in Malaysia with roots in Sri Lanka (once known as Serendib and later Ceylon) is an accountant by training. He served a five-year period of articles with the prestigious firm of chartered accountants, Turquand Youngs and Company and has worked as chief accountant in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone as Accountant General, Liberia and the United States of America. Chandra and his wife Siva have been blessed with two loving grandchildren – granddaughter Neela Chandraraj and grandson Deeran Vermeij. He presently lives in tranquil retirement with his wife Siva in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.A. His six previous publications: 1. For the Love of Shakespeare 2. Your Sense of Humor – Don’t Leave Home Without It 3. Mining my own life 4. Reminiscing in tranquility of a time long gone by. 5. Itty Bitty Tiny Tall Tales 6. Rhyme to Pass the Time
Chances are good that youve used one of the following expressions in your everyday conversations: Eaten me out of house and home, Give the devil his due, Done to death, or The green-eyed monster. But did you know William Shakespeare authored each of these phrases, along with many other English phrases in common use? For the Love of Shakespeare celebrates these and other common sayings that appear in our daily conversations and correctly attributes them to their true author, William Shakespeare. K. B. Chandra Raj showcases these expressions, now over 400 years old, in their original plays and poems to explain how they have changed in meaning and context. In addition, Chandra Raj studies the i...
K.B. Chandra Raj was born and raised in Malaysia with firm roots in Sri Lanka (once known as Serendib and later Ceylon) is an accountant by training. He served a five-year period of articles with the prestigious firm of chartered accountants, Turquand Youngs and Company and has worked as chief accountant in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone as Accountant General, Liberia and the United States of America. Chandra and his wife Siva have been blessed with two loving grandchildren - granddaughter Neela Chandraraj and grandson Deeran Vermeij. He presently lives in tranquil retirement with his wife Siva in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.A. His seven previous publications: 1. For the Love of Shakespeare 2. Your Sense of Humor - Don't Leave Home Without It 3. Mining my own life 4. Reminiscing in tranquility of a time long gone by 5. Itty Bitty Tiny Tall Tales 6. Rhyme to Pass the Time 7. Poems Please
In this book, a sequel to Mining My Own Life the author makes whole the omissions of several riveting episodes in his life working for a living in three continents. Growing up in Malaysia under brutal Japanese occupation; the chilling circumstances in Sri Lanka the land of his forbears that propelled him to seek employment in the West African states of Sierra Leone and Liberia which changed the contours of his familys life permanently ; the crushing process he had to involuntarily subject himself in order to obtain United States citizenship and from a position of clinical detachment he confronts point blank the twin scourges the pernicious caste system (that is pervasive in his community) and the blankness of the color blind ideology in the United States of America. To the long avowed esoteric doctrines of Karma, Maktub and Historical Determinism and to the precept of Thy Will Be Done the author deftly puts a human face by relating them to his own enlightening personal experiences which have had an enduring impact on his life.
The book brings forcefully to the reader the importance of humor in a person's life, what outstanding men and women from all disciplines say in praise of humor and how it benefited them. The book tells you where you can find humor and laughter and the ways you can put humor to good use.