The City of Parks

About the Book

The City of Parks (Memories of an Outsider) is a story of a man who left his village in Northern India, when his primary school teacher canned him for not paying five rupees for transferring from nursery to grade one. He went to town with his relative to study. While waiting for admission, he started to practice English alphabets and was keen to show his work. The relative slapped planting his fingers on the youngster’s cheek for behaving like a child at the age of nine. In 1965, he came to England where he faced both social and financial problems. Yet he succeeded in all fields by sheer determination, hard work, honesty, simplicity and effective action. This book provides a graphic account of events and happenings in his life from 1965 to 2015, in this great and beautiful city of London. DR. K C ARORA

About the Author

Keshava Arora (also known as K C Arora) was born in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh (India) in 1938. He took his BA degree in 1958 from the Agra University. After teaching for five years in India, he came to England in 1965, where he studied for the BSc Economics (Honours) degree of the London University. He took his MA in politics and government from the London Guildhall University (now part of London Metropolitan University) and did his MPhil research degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Doctor of philosophy (PhD) was done at the University of Greenwich by publication. He has written articles and essays on various themes. His main interests, however, remained in original research. He has done research on “Gandhi’s Communal Society,” “Equal Opportunities for Ethnic Minorities in Work-Related No-Advanced Further Education,” “Colonialism and the Decline of Cotton Industry in 19th Century India,” “The India League and the India Conciliation Group as factors in Indo-British Relations in the 1930s and 1940s,” “Imperialism and the Non-Aligned Movement,” “North- South Economic Relations,” and the “Indian Civil Service.” He published his book The Indian Nationalist Movement in Britain (1930-49) in 1992. This book offered a historical account of events in India and their reaction in Britain. It also presented a constitutional development of India from a colonial empire through the process of a Commonwealth nation to a Sovereign Independent Republic. His other publications have been listed under other publications by K.C. Arora. Keshava Arora had a very wide teaching and administrative experience. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich. He had organized a number of seminars and staff development courses on a variety of topics, including race relations and equal opportunities in Britain. He is well versed in English and Hindi languages. He retired in 2003.