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I was born in 1933 in Chahal Kalan—a small village near Gujranwala in Pakistan. I used to walk about 4 km to my high school and read in the light of an oil lamp. My favorite sports were kabadi, wrestling, and playing free-for—hockey on a dirt road. I learned to swim in the village pond.
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Chopra, K.L. (2016). From Physics to Engineering Physics. In: Ghosh, P., Raj, B. (eds) The Mind of an Engineer. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0119-2_40
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