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A two-person RMIMeet was held in East Lansing on June 28, 2023. It was attended by Pradeep Asrani and Surjit Singh. Of course, many Hindi film and song discussions took place. Among other things, I recalled how Gurcharan Singh Sandhu of UK spent months in 1996, helping with the second edition of the well-known Hindi Film Geet Kosh by traveling to Kanpur at his own expense and staying with Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'. Pradeep recalled how he requested a complete list of films available with the famous MM Video and obtained all the one he did not have :) [I am happy to report that Pradeep has shared a lot of them with me to help with the Song Section of the Hindi Film Database, on the song picturization work of Volume 1961-1970, which is now in full swing, and about which I am happy to report that I just finished Mera Bhai Mera Dushman (1967).]

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First time I met him was in 2006 when I went to India. I took a cab from BARC (we were staying with Harmesh's sister in one of the BARC residential buildings, went straight to TIFR. He took me to his house where his wife made tea and offered biscuits. He showed me his collection and talked about the Society of Indian Record Collectors.

I bought from him all the books of Michael Kinnear, all the issues of the Record News. He gave me copies of many other books and old catalogs. We spent many hours just talking.

The taxi was waiting, we drove right back to BARC.

I was a very happy man, having met such a nice person and having gained so much rare material without making much effort.

We emailed each other, kept exchanging books, magazines and songs. He kept sending me more info about the activities of SIRC in different cities.

Next time, I met him when he came To San Diego. ...