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1 DR. RAM S. HAMSAGAR October 21, 2011 at 11:58 pm: I am delighted at the very idea of “ordinary-gentlemen.com”. I wrote a Book in 1986 on “Perception and Reality-A Search for the Untimate Truth” which didn’t get exposure to thinkers boutside india as it was sold only in India. Now iam keen to provide these ideas to people like your team has and so I write this and shall e-mal a and extract of my book as a Power Point Presentation and if further interested shall e-mail the entire book as a soft copy. Thank you.

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