Mish-Kid Mosaic: True tales of India...temples and tigers, beggars and bears; eunuchs and devils, leopards and lies; cockfights and kisses, pianos and ... and ferns, fanatics and fantasies…

Mish-Kid Mosaic (True tales of India)... temples and tigers, beggars and bears; eunuchs and devils, leopards and lies; cockfights and kisses, pianos and piercings; faith and ferns, fanatics and fantasies MishKid Mosaic is a compilation of fascinating short stories and brief flashbacks from the life and thoughts of an American missionary kid who grew up in India just after she won her independence from Britain in 1947. The author doesn t only want to tell you stories from his growing up years he wants you to know how these experiences influenced him for life inviting you to view a cross-section of his psyche to see what molded him into the man he became and to encourage you to also think about your own life and what has shaped you. Simultaneously entertaining and thought-provoking, even if you have only ten minutes to spare, you ll find something in MishKid Mosaic worth the read, and you ll undoubtedly learn something interesting that you never knew before. There s something for most everyone lovers, hunters, kids, theologians, psychologists, cultural anthropologists, students, educators, sociologists, farmers, botanists, pianists, and anyone killing time...The author was born in Patna, the capital city of the north-central Indian state of Bihar on the southern banks of the Ganges river, on February 7, 1948 7 days after Gandhi was assassinated into the third generation of an American Protestant missionary family to India. He attended kindergarten at Mt. Hermon School in Darjeeling, West Bengal (northeast India) in 1953 where he received a prize for winning a race from Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the Nepali-Indian mountaineer who, along with Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, on May 29 of the same year was one of the first two individuals to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The following year the author's parents transferred their four children to Woodstock School, Mussoorie, Uttarkhand (northwest India). Both Mt. Hermon (1895) and Woodstock (1854) schools were founded during the British colonial period, high in the first range of the Himalayas at 7000 altitude. He graduated from Woodstock in 1966 and came to America, the country of his citizenship by birth. Awarded the Bronze Star and two Army Commendation Medals as an infantryman in Vietnam, he also earned a B.A. in South Asian Studies and an M.A. in Biblical Studies. He lives on Cape Cod.