Lost in India – 2. BACK TO ROOTS – TAJPUR
2. BACK TO ROOTS – TAJPUR (March 13 – 15, 2000) My niece, Melo’s three daughters fall in the same age group as my daughter? All three are doing university degrees from home and give private tuition to students and help in a school. This was my first contact with them and I found them…
Lost in India – 1. PALACE IN WHEAT FIELDS
Travel Log- Lost in India By Naginder Sehmi (An abridged version forms a chapter in the book TWISTED TURBAN, Naginder Sehmi, Memoirs Publishing, UK. Dec.2013) 1. PALACE IN WHEAT FIELDS (March 9 – 12, 2000) I sleep so deeply that I rarely remember dreams in the morning. This rule was shattered after my return from…
Mauvoisin Dam in Val de Bagne
Association of Former WMO Staff, Bulletin No. 5, November 2006 MAUVOISIN DAM IN VAL DE BAGNE 8 August 2006 By Jean Hume (Organized by Naginder Sehmi) Our party built up gradually: Samuel and Helena Mbele-Mbong took the train at Cointrin, joined shortly by Arthur and Janet Askew, Ilse Bourgain and our doughty leader Naginder Sehmi…
World Water Crisis
IS THERE A WORLD FRESHWATER CRISIS? By Naginder S. Sehmi (This article is based on an unpublished report on “Rehabilitate Aquatic Ecosystems to Resolve Freshwater Crisis” that the author had prepared for World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in March 1998.) The article summarizes the current debate on existence of a freshwater crisis. It then examines the dire consequences…
No war over the Nile
Water & Environment WMO Bulletin, Volume 45-No.3, July 1996 as “The enigmatic Nile” (p.265-268) THERE WILL BE NO WAR OVER NILE WATERS By Naginder Sehmi Hydrology and Water Resources Department, WMO Introduction The Nile is the longest river in the world (6671 km. Fed by the eternal snows of the Ruwenzori mountains, the legendary Nile…
The path of celestial visions
Association of Former WMO Staff, Buletin 3, November 2005. The path of celestial visions By Naginder Sehmi The steep rocky promontory on the left where the Rhone River makes an elbow bend has impressed whoever has entered Valais from Lake Leman side. It marks the entrance to central Valais. It is also the site of…
LONDON REVISITED- 1999
LONDON REVISITED – 1999 By Naginder Sehmi It is nearly 30 years since I have been living in Geneva. Uprooted from a well-established small town of Eldoret in the “White” highlands of Kenya, social roots cannot grow easily in Geneva. In Eldoret every one knew every one. Many Kenya Asians flocked to Britain where they…
Kilimanjaro: One Rover’s Impression -1956
“BATIAN” – Scouting Magazine (Kenya), page 15, February, 1957 KILIMANJARO: One Rover’s Impression -1956 By Naginder S. Sehmi THE Wood Badge Course at Rowallan Camp, as strenuous as any course well could be in a Scout’s normal career, concluded on August 25th, 1956. Only two days later, in a well-washed uniform and laden with a…
The chaser and the chased
Association of Former WMO Staff, Bulletin 7, November 2007 The chaser and the chased By Naginder Sehmi Rudi’s adventures in the Masai Mara (published in the same issue of the Bulletin) fuelled yet more exchanges between Amicale chatternauts. Sushel Unninayar was quick to reassure Rudi that he had never been in danger of being eaten…
Telecommunications and water in Africa
African weather and water data exchange (pdf)
