Jagdish Pant
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Retired IAS Officer |
| Location | Dehradun(Uttarakhand), Uttarakhand-India |
| Introduction | I was born in Almora in December 1938. We moved to Mussoorie in 1942 or so and maintained a residence there till 2006. Abha my wife and me are leading a retired life in Dehradun. We have two sons- Lalit the elder one is in Dallas with his wife Vibha and two children, a girl of 7 years and a son of three months. Nikhil the younger one is in New Delhi with his wife Ruchi and a son 11 years old. The whole family is dedicated to human and social values which conform with the highest ideals of Indian culture. |
| Interests | Mountaineering, education, environmental concerns, reading philosophical books, occasional writing in Hindi and English, social reforms activities and concerns. |
| Favorite Movies | Goodbye Mr Chips, How Green was My Valley, Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje, Do Bigha Zamin, Gandhi(Attenborough, Babarchi etc. |
| Favorite Music | Shehnai by Bismilah Khan, Sarod by Amjad Ali Khan, Sitar by Ravishankar, vocal by Onkarnath Thakur, DV Paluskar, Vinayak Rao Patwardhan, Sachindeo Barman, M. Subalakshmi. |
| Favorite Books | Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley, Gandhi's My Experiments With Truth, Biographies of Shri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekanand by Romain Rolland. |