[Assam] Irani-Israeli joint venture; UBC's lovely campus

[Barua25]

Congratulations Umesh!
You are doing real well.
BTW Vancouver is one of the the most beautiful cities in the world (if not the best). Enjoy as much while exploring your life. (I hope you are keeping these notes for your future auto-biography.
Rajenda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "umesh sharma" <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
To: <assam at assamnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:41 PM
Subject: [Assam] Irani-Israeli joint venture; UBC's lovely campus


> Hi,
> 
> There is an interesting love story blossoming at the
> place where I am staying. The product is an eight
> month old child. The father is from Iran who escaped
> (as a boy) with his mother and older brother to Canada
> overnight while hiding and running across the border
> into Turkey and somehow onto Canada as refugees -becos
>  of their faith. The father of that boy could not
> leave the country . 
> 
> Later the boy's mother died of cancer when he was
> sixteen . His father died in a car accident soon after
> in Iran. That boy met an American girl of Jewish
> (Israeli) descent at an International School in
> Vancouver -many years later they were married in 2004
> - just before his wife joined Harvard as a student.
> Right now I am in their house in Vancouver. They both
> follow the Bahai faith (remember the Lotus temple at
> Nehru Place in Delhi) and had met at an international
> school at Vancouver. 
> 
> The Irani lad now is a medical student at University
> of British Columbia (the state in which Vancouver is
> based) -and staying in student housing duplex for
> families. I am camping in their living room. He took
> me to  look at the campus -which I was surprised to
> find is located right at sea shore (more like a bay)
> and across the bay are high mountains completely
> covered with conifers) and many Hollywood films are
> shot there. He has seen Schwarzenegger there, met
> briefly Wesley Snipes (of The Blade fame), Vin Diesel
> of SWAT, XXX fame, Van Damme of Universal SOldier
> fame.. Even now there were plenty of carvans etc of
> some film units.
> 
> I was reading this book by Robert Schuller - The Times
> do not survive  but tough people do--which gave
> examples of survival. I think I have not met a greater
> survivor than this man from Iran. Besides becoming an
> orphan as a teen - in an new country - he himself was
> struck with cancer. His future wife who at the time
> had gone to work with AIDS victims etc in Zimbabwe,
> Botswana etc (which have highest % of AIDS in
> population -upto 40% of adult popu) and somehow lost
> touch with him came to know about it -when he called
> from the hospital while undergoing chemotherapy. Nowhe
> is fine -and perhaps wants to repay the debt of the
> doctors by becoming one himself.
> At this Univ. only local residents are accepted as
> students for the medical program since there is
> extreme shortage of doctors in this area.
> 
> A wonderful and inspiring story of a family hailing
> from politically antagonistic regions .
> 
> Isn't it?
> 
> Umesh
> 
> 
> Umesh Sharma
> 5121 Lackawanna ST
> College Park, MD 20740 USA
> 
> Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada
> 
>  1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
> Canada # (607) 221-9433
> 
> Ed.M. - International Education Policy
> Harvard Graduate School of Education,
> Harvard University,
> Class of 2005
> 
> weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
> 
> 
> 
> 
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