Bøger af Phillip Khan-Panni

This book is about a chance encounter with a man who goes around the streets of London surprising homeless people with unexpected large gifts of cash and a a simple means of reconnecting with the world around them. It leads to an extended conversation in which the benefactor, Norman Sinclair, reveals that he has given away most of his big win on the Lottery, in support of his mission: to bring about a change in the way we communicate with one another, and how that can be achieved. The conversation explains the essential Three Truths of Communication, dictums that determine the effectiveness of what we say. The other person in the dialogue could be you. An easy read, it will appeal to anyone who enjoys a well-written book. However, although the setting and characters are fictitious, its ideas on verbal communication could change the way you think and speak.

This is a collection of episodes from boarding school days in Darjeeling, the queen of Indian hill stations, during the dying days of the British Raj. The author was born in Hong Kong during World War II, smuggled across to mainland China under the noses of the occupying Japanese forces, and later kidnapped by his mother and flown by US bomber into India, where he was deposited in a succession of boarding schools. Along the way he collected pre-war English values and attitudes which were missing from the England he eventually found when he emigrated there. More than a personal memoir, it's an account of how it was to live for nine months of each year in a cloistered boarding school in Darjeeling, 7,000 feet up in the eastern Himalayas, speaking only English, playing Cricket, Football and Hockey, learning how to multiply pounds, shillings and pence from Pendlebury's Arithmetic, debating in the parliamentary tradition, and going for runs in the pouring monsoon rain. The '40s and '50s are recalled with wistful affection, and there is an account of the three-train-plus-ferry journey from Calcutta to Darjeeling, including the world-famous Toy Train which is still chugging up the mountain behind tiny tank engines. The title derives from the author's childhood practice of lying on grassy banks on sunny days, picking wild daisies, plucking their petals and rubbing the cushioned centres to release their delicate scent. To him, daisies are happy reminders of those slow-moving idyllic days when life was lived from day to day, and nothing mattered very much.

How to make a great, best man's speech - and a guide to being a great best man.In this book Phillip Khan-Panni uses his expertise as a champion professional speaker to help the best man with the terrifying prospect of writing and delivering The Speech.He guides you on the vital preparation of your speech and tells you how to use stories, jokes and quotations that will lift it well above the bare necessities. With the author`s help and his professional tips and techniques, you will be able to make a really entertaining and moving speech that will be remembered for a long time to come. You might even enjoy making it as much as the guests do hearing it!There are also checklists and further advice to help you organise the whole occasion so that the big day honours the groom and his bride and thoroughly impresses their friends and relations