When Corbett scared off a Kid

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When Corbett scared off a Kid

Post by Sakobav » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:39 am

I was reading Obituary of Ravi Dayal Indians head of Oxford university press and maybe Khushwants singhs son in law. I read this humorous incident

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060611/a ... 326574.asp
One early experience of his Nainital days in the Forties was serendipitous: while walking to school he accidentally bumped into a man whom he had frequently seen on that road. On this occasion the man asked the boy his name. When the boy replied 'Ravi Dayal', the man introduced himself as Jim Corbett. 'You're the man-eater!', howled the confused boy, bolting in terror in the direction of his school, leaving Corbett ' as Dayal put it in his impeccably articulate style when recounting the story' 'somewhat bemused'. Later, as head of OUP India, Dayal sold hundreds of thousands of copies of the Corbett corpus, published the best biography of Corbett, and gave Corbett's biographer, D.C. Kala, the Ranikhet rooms in which Kala still lives.

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Re: When Corbett scared off a Kid

Post by Vikram » Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:33 pm

That was a good one,Navi!


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Re: When Corbett scared off a Kid

Post by dr.jayakumar » Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:09 pm

ROTFL nice read too.
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Re: When Corbett scared off a Kid

Post by James_Bond » Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:18 pm

Nice read.
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