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DR.W.RIZVI Aug 22, 2009
hello jerry,
yiu are so lucy to meet friends and relatives of my idol. ivisit his house every year when i go to dhikala.i really get lost in those back memories of jim corbett i read in my childhood days.
dr.rizvi
yiu are so lucy to meet friends and relatives of my idol. ivisit his house every year when i go to dhikala.i really get lost in those back memories of jim corbett i read in my childhood days.
dr.rizvi
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DEATH AS A PART OF LIFE
Jerry Jaleel Jul 25, 2008
It was 50 years ago, after reading MAN EATERS OF KUMAON, I eagerly contacted the British counsel in India asking for Corbett's address in the hope of getting in touch with that great man. In a post card reply it said " Jim Corbett is now dead". Disappointed, but vowed to find out more about him, and soon read all his five books, reviewed some of them for a local news paper and published a biography of Corbett in 1964. This was the beginning of my quest in search of Jim Corbett. By traveling to Kumaon, Kenya, Tanganyika, England, Sweden and other parts of Europe and India, I came in contact with several of his friends and relatives over the years, and it was precisely 14 years ago, the Jim Corbett Foundation was established after restoring his grave in Kenya. I wish I had met him when I first read his book as a boy. Now I accept the fact that death is a part of life. Most of Corbett's friends and relatives I met in the last 50 years have now gone to the happy hunting grounds. ( Jerry Jaleel)