Jivi Bai Choksey

Jivi Bai - mother of Gordhandas Jamnadas Choksey ?? - 1926

Got this vignette of this woman from mom at the breakfast table this morning.

Bhai and Ba lived with Bhai's father Jamnadas in a 2 rooms  on the 3rd floor in Douji-No-Malo in Bhuleshwar.

She ran the household with an iron hand. After completing her designated tasks, she would walk to the bead store in Bhuleshwar, from where she would return with a man's black velvet hat, pearls and other materials. She would spend the afternoon embellishing the hat. In the late afternoon, she would bring the decorated hat back to the same store and bring back 1 rupee for her efforts.

These beautifully decorated hats would adorn the heads of the wealthy young businessmen of Bhuleshwar.

She had a very shot temper that Ba sometimes got to experience.

How many of us see a bit Jivi Ba in ourselves today ?

Euro English - what a concept (borrowed from a note I received)

T he European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. 

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for 
improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English' .. 

In the first year, 
's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. 

The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. 

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced 
with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. 

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. 

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. 

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'. 

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. 

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. 

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. 

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl