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PRATAP BHOGILAL - JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE
After my cardiac surgery, I went again to London, France and USA in 2005. Again Indru invited me to Lans and so I spent a few days. It was during my visit to USA when I was staying with Arvindbhai and llaben Vora at Long Island that Arvind introduced me to Dr. William Vendley, Secretary General of World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP) We discussed inter faith matters and he said he would like me to attend the World Assembly that was being held in Kyoto next year and that he would send an invitation. Mr. Paul Sherbow of WCRP had met me in Mumbai and talked about inter faith work 2/3 years ago but there was no contact although later I learnt they had formed an India Council of Religions for Peace.
When I received the invitation, I requested Dr. Vendley to invite Smt Aruna Oswal who was working with us at WJC and also Sadhvi Shilapiji who could very well speak at the Women's Forum at the Assembly.
So in 2006, after visiting USA - staying with Gyanda at Elkton, Maryland and Minal and Bharatbhai in St. Louis, I flew to Osaka and went to Kyoto to attend the Assembly. The Assembly was a grand success and after my return I got an invitation to join the WCRP International Board of Trustees and I accepted. I spent a couple of days in Kobe with Popatbhai and family who were very hospitable. I also met Miura's son-in-law, Takashi and his wife Masako, her sister Kuniko (both daughters of Mr. Kanji Miura) and her husband. It was a nice reunion with the Miura family although Mr. Kanji Miura and his wife had died earlier.
In 2009 I had visited USA for a meeting as mentioned elsewhere of the WCRP at the White House to meet the officials of the State Department acquainting them with the work of WCRP.
In 2010 I took a cruise with Malti to Antarctica and also visited Brazil and Argentina and Sun City near Johannesburg in South Africa.
In 2011 I took a cruise to the Arctic where we experienced four days without seeing night while cruising the Arctic Circle and at a stopover in North Capp, the northern most habitable town. After the cruise
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