Dr. Baburao Patel (1904-1982) was an extraordinary personality, touching the lives of all those who came in contact with him. A prolific reader and writer, Member of Parliament, journalist, founder and editor of Film India, India’s first film magazine (later re-christened Mother India), philanthropist and homoeopath, Dr. Patel started Mother India Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. in 1973. Each of the remedies in our catalogue today were carefully formulated,
tried and tested by Dr. Patel, to cover a wide array of ailments and conditions. In the last four decades, Dr. Baburao Patel’s Homoeopathic Remedies have, true to his vision, healed the sick in India and abroad.
Today, Dr. Patel’s nephew, Dr. U. Ravi Rao is carrying forward his uncle’s legacy. Dr. Rao has rich experience in the pharma industry, both in manufacturing and quality control. The homoeopathic remedies are manufactured and marketed out of Hyderabad, India.
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Dr.Baburao Patel's book of "Homoeopathic Life Savers" and remedies are well known. In fact, they make him immortal. I have been using these remedies for a long time. Some of them are remarkably effective. His "Shiv-Shakti" is for vim, vigour and vitality. It is a boon to every man, woman and child. "Moonbeam" is an all purpose complexion cream and a face beautifier. My wife Savita uses "Magic Touch" to get relief from knee joint pain. Reports say both "Eye Bright" and "Tonsils" are a blessing. Personally, I rate "Life Saver" as the best product which indeed meets 100 emergencies. It is like having a doctor in our pocket, especially while travelling. I pray to God that this unique remedy will be available in every home, in every country in the world. For this great humanitarian noble work, we are eternally grateful to Girnar Mother Dr.Sushila Rani Patel, the woman behind Dr.Baburao Patel's pioneering work of 50 years healing experience. Heartiest greetings to the family of Dr.U.Ravi Rao for taking over Mother India Pharmaceuticals and continuing the show with improvement.
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Dr.Baburao Patel's book of " Homoeopathic Life Savers" and remedies are well known. In fact, they make him immortal. I have been using these remedies for a long time. Some of them are remarkably effective. His Shiv-Shakti" tonic is for vim, vigour and vitality. It is a boon to every man, woman and child. "Moonbeam" is an all purpose complexion c...
K.B. Lal
Dr. Baburao Patel, was not only a brilliant writer but a seeker of knowledage and in the early forties, he mastered the art of healing the sick through Homoeopathy and made me also a homoeopath alongside with him. Together we started the Mother India Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd in 1973 with our long first hand experience of patients in hundreds. Mo...
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Dr. Baburao Patel, was not only a brilliant writer but also a seeker of knowledge and in the early forties, he mastered the art of healing the sick through Homoeopathy and made me also a homoeopath alongside with him. Together we started the Mother India Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd in 1973 with our long first hand experience of patients in hundreds. Mother India Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. is now well-established, not only in Indian cities but also has users in other parts of the world.
At 93, I am still under the spell of MIP Products to keep me physically fit and mentally active. I never miss MIP Shiv Shakti tablets. They are the secret of good health. People often wonder at the number of various things I do in a day, apart from singing and teaching music and organizing musical concerts. When my friends want to know the secret of my smooth complextion, my reply is "Moonbeam Cream". For a back pain only caused by undue strain, only "Magic Touch" is the cure. As regards "Life Saver" it is always in my handbag. "Cosmic Saver" for the hair is another delight. The list is endless.
Dr. U. Ravi Rao, my nephew, is full of ideas, and an expert pharmacologist. He has been assiduously trained in homoeopathy, learnt under Dr. Baburao Patel. I wish and pray for his success.
MIP has a wonderful future for MIP Pvt. Ltd. to spread its wings far and wide with this website. Heartiest congratulations for this interesting website.
Dr. Sushila Rani Baburao Patel
Dr.Baburao Patel's book of "Homoeopathic Life Savers" and remedies are well known. In fact, they make him immortal. I have been using these remedies for a long time. Some of them are remarkably effective.
His "Shiv-Shakti" is for vim, vigour and vitality. It is a boon to every man, woman and child. "Moonbeam" is an all purpose complexion cream and a face beautifier. My wife Savita uses "Magic Touch" to get relief from knee joint pain. Reports say both "Eye Bright" and "Tonsils" are a blessing. Personally, I rate "Life Saver" as the best product which indeed meets 100 emergencies. It is like having a doctor in our pocket, especially while travelling. I pray to God that this unique remedy will be available in every home, in every country in the world. For this great humanitarian noble work, we are eternally grateful to Girnar Mother Dr.Sushila Rani Patel, the woman behind Dr.Baburao Patel's pioneering work of 50 years healing experience. Heartiest greetings to the family of Dr.U.Ravi Rao for taking over Mother India Pharmaceuticals and continuing the show with improvement.
K.B. Lal
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Book Review: Sidharth Bhatia’s ‘The Patels of Filmindia: Pioneers of Indian Film Journalism’
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I have a confession to make: despite my love for cinema, I’ve never been too keen on film magazines. When I was a child, my parents never bought film magazines, and by the time I’d grown into my teens and had the freedom (and pocket money) to buy whatever reading material I chose, all my major interest in films had shifted to films made before I’d even been born.
As a result, I never knew of Filmindia (or, as it was later renamed, Mother India) until a few years ago, when I read, on Greta’s blog, about Baburao Patel and his film magazine, Filmindia. Reading excerpts on Memsaabstory from Filmindia (and, more often than not, snorting out loud at Baburao Patel’s irreverence), or gushing over the fabulous artwork, I couldn’t help but think:if there’s ever one film magazine I would want to read, it would be the erstwhile Filmindia.
When I heard that Sidharth Bhatia was going to be releasing his book on Baburao Patel andFilmindia, I knew this was right up my alley. Not so much for Baburao Patel (who, I had convinced myself, after having read some of his writing, I did not like—not a nice man), but for the art, the ads, the feel of the 30s, the 40s, the 50s. Even the 60s. The golden age of Hindi cinema. That—the cinema—was what I wanted to read about, what I wanted to see.
Bhatia’s book, The Patels of Filmindia: Pioneers of Indian Film Journalism (2015; Indus Source Books, ISBN: 978-81-88569-67-0; 171 pages; Rs 2,000), however, came as a revelation—because it had me deeply engrossed not just in its many excerpts from Filmindia, but in the lives of Baburao Patel and his wife Sushila Rani Patel too.
The first ten chapters of the book trace the lives, both personal and professional, of Baburao Patel and Sushila. Born in 1904, Baburao came to Bombay as a boy when his family shifted to the city, and after a while left off studying formally (though he remained a voracious reader all his life). A brief stint in cinema—as script writer and director—followed, until 1935, when, along with the owner of the New Jack Printing Press, he launched Filmindia. There was no looking back, then: Baburao Patel went from strength to strength, fearless, brusque, and outspoken in his editorials (and most of the articles and film reviews, which he wrote himself).
There are a couple of chapters about Baburao’s pursuit of Sushila (whom he launched in a film and later married—even though he was already married and was nearly 14 years older than her). There are interesting anecdotes about the Patels’ relationships with the who’s who of Indian society—and not just the film world—of that period, of the love-hate relationships, too, with everybody from Noorjehan to KA Abbas to the Anands of Navketan. Baburao Patel and Sushila (who took over her fair share of Filmindia work) were not merely the people who edited and ran India’s best-loved film magazine; they were, obviously, stalwarts in their own right. Worthy enough for Baburao Patel to stand for elections, to win, to convert his magazine from a cinema-oriented one to a mix in which politics dominated.
Following the biographies of Baburao, Sushila, and the magazine they ran for 50 years (Filmindia, later named Mother India shut shop in 1985) comes the magazine itself: 80 pages of reviews, articles, and Question and Answer sections from various issues of Filmindia/Mother India. The reviews range from those of films long forgotten, even lost (like Navketan’s Afsar) to films that are still admired and loved, like Anupama, Devdas, and Kaala Bazaar. The articles run the gamut from ‘howlers’ (Baburao’s word, not mine) from the cinema industry to more general observations on what was wrong (and occasionally, right) with Hindi cinema. Interspersed with the text (which includes images of the original article, as it appeared in the magazine) are lots of images—photographs, advertisements for films (and for other products, ranging from thermos flasks to Lux), and more.
Sometime back, Anu and I were discussing the idea of people dismissing a film because a character (especially a protagonist) is portrayed as less than perfect. Both of us had been of the opinion that a character’s morality (or lack of it) shouldn’t take away from the worth of the film. After all, all stories need not be pretty, and all characters need not be noble and nice.
I was reminded of that while reading this book. Baburao Patel, for all his charisma and fearlessness, comes across as just the sort of person I’d want to steer clear of: rude, sexist, at times bigoted and regressive, hypocritical (to read his fierce indignation about morality as shown onscreen, one would imagine the man to be a saint in his personal life, not the trigamist and serial philanderer he actually was), and—well, generally not likeable. (I will not dwell on his writing, the style of which doesn’t appeal to me—it has an odd, sometimes ungrammatical feel to it that sounds more like Hindi film dialogue translated into English).
Despite that, I’d call this book a keeper. Sidharth Bhatia does a brilliant job of showcasing both the Patels and their creation. The biographies are well told, not too gossipy, not too lengthy. The excerpts chosen for the latter half of the book are well-selected, with an equal mix of well-known films and obscure ones, and films that Baburao lambasted (“C.I.D., in brief, is a tolerably well produced and directed, but cheaply and stupidly conceived, unpalatable crime picture”) to those on which he showered praise (“…Chaudhvin ka Chand is the scintillating result of a rare combination of a good story and skillful presentation…”).
And the images. Nargis and a young Dilip Kumar. Madhubala (a Patel favourite—Sushila Rani Patel taught her English). Durga Khote, Ashok Kumar, Sushila Rani herself in and as Draupadi. Dev Anand. Suraiya, Noorjehan, Raj Kapoor. And dozens of others now long-forgotten. Stills from films, photos from parties and events (Pandit Nehru with Sushila Rani, for instance).
A treat, that’s what this is. And you get to meet two people whose lives could well be the basis of a pretty entertaining film.
You can buy The Patels of Filmindia: Pioneers of Indian Film Journalism here, on Amazon India.
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Dr. Baburao Patel's Homoeopathic Remedies
ALCOHOLIC HANG-OVER
MRP : ₨ 35.00
A remedy that takes you to office with a ‘head’ next morning. Adds to the success of prohibition and saves the liver. It helps you to enjoy your drink and go to work next morning.
BACKACHE (Internal)
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Two Remedies) For all backaches due to neuralgia, strains, over-exertion or periodical backache in women. Very useful in Lumbago.
BITES & STINGS
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Internal) Internal remedy for all poisonous bites such as those of insects, mosquitoes, dogs, rats, cats, horses OR for injuries from sharp, pointed instruments; septic wounds; needle pricks; whitlows. (This remedy should be used along with “HEAL-KWIK”, the external ointment.)
BOILS & CARBUNCLES
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Internal) An unfailing remedy for all boils and carbuncles. Summer boils, mango boils, with single or several openings. (Use along with “HEAL-KWIK”, external ointment.)
BURNS & SCALDS
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Internal) (Two Remedies) A remarkably effective remedy for all minor and major burns and scalds. (To be used along with the external ointment: “KOOL-KISS”.)
CAR-AIR-SEA-SICKNESS
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Two Remedies) An internal remedy found very effective in all journeys. Those sensitive to such journeys must carry a bottle with them. Also useful after a sleepless night.
CHEER-UP
MRP : ₨ 35.00
For all melancholias, mental distress; feeling of frustration; self-condemnation; thought of suicide; no love for life; profound despondency; disgust of life; mental depression, fear of society; over-sensitiveness; self-pity; high blood pressure; general tension; feeling of worthlessness; wants to destroy himself etc.
CHEST PAINS (Internal)
MRP : ₨ 35.00
A very effective remedy for all intermediate pains in the chest. stitching, tearing, shooting, lancinating or severe pains in the regions of the heart or lungs. Pains in intercostal places and hypochondria between shoulder blades. (Also use “MAGIC TOUCH” for external application.)
CHICKEN-POX
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Two Remedies) A real life-Saver. Not only cures but prevents. Also prevents harmful after-effects. A safe remedy.
COLITIS
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Two Remedies) A wonderfully effective remedy for all colic pains; mucous colitis; ulcerative colitis and all ulcerative and spasmodic condition of the intestines.
CUTS & WOUNDS
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Internal) (Two Remedies) A most essential internal remedy which not only hastens the cure but prevents infection, sepsis, pain and tetanus in all cuts and wounds. (Use with “HEAL-KWIK”, the external ointment.)
DIARRHOEA
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Two Remedies) Indicated in Irritative Diarrhoea; Congestive or Inflammatory Diarrhoea; Summer Diarrhoea or common diarrhoeas. (Often used in association with the remedy for Colitis.)
DI-FLATO
MRP : ₨ 35.00
This remarkable medicine is a life saver for those suffering from chronic dyspepsia, bad flatulence (everything turns into gas), rumbling wind in the stomach and abdomen, indigestion, gastritis, distress in stomach after meals and all digestive disorders.
EYE-BRIGHT
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Internal) A genuine eye-saver. Indicated in all conditions of eye-strain due to reading, sewing, picture-seeing or doing fine work. Burning in the eyes. Conjunctivitis. Watering eyes. Bloodshot eyes. Painful aching eyes. Heat in eyes. Tired, weary eyes with eye balls paining. Improves eye-sight and blurred vision.
FEVERS
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Two Remedies) A wonderfully effective blanket remedy for known and unknown fevers of the tropics. Specially indicated in Gastric fever, Catarrhal fever, Bilious fever, Enteric fever, Typhus fever, Hay fever, Adynamic fevers, Marshy fevers, Dengue fever, Gastrohepatic fevers, Malaria etc.
BONE FRACTURES
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Internal) (Two Remedies) This most essential internal remedy hastens to heal all fractures simple or compound from within. It removes the shock to the nerves, pain and discomfort. It cuts short the time of convalescence by more than half. (Must be used along with the external application “KNIT-BONE”)
INDIGESTION & FLATULENCE
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Two Remedies) An everyday life-saver for those with bad stomachs. Indicated for people whose digestion is upset and who get gas even after eating a little or without eating. Distress after meals. Flatulence. Rumbling in the stomach. Corrects habitual dyspepsia and indigestion.
GUMS & TEETH
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Internal) (Two Remedies) Indicated in all painful and sick conditions of gums and teeth. Spongy gums; bleeding gums; painful inflamed gums; gum abscess; loose teeth; toothache; swollen jaw; excessive saliva; thirst with moist mouth; fetid odour from mouth; usual gum and teeth ailments.
INFLUENZA
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Two Remedies) Almost a specific in various influenzal fevers. In periodical epidemics it has been found remarkably effective not only in curing quickly the acute condition but also in preventing new attacks. Also prevents the sequelae after influenza.
JAUNDICE
MRP : ₨ 35.00
(Two Remedies) A special organic remedy indicated in all cases of jaundice, whether congestive due to degeneration of liver cells; obstructive due to some external pressure; malignant jaundice, etc. Corrects the condition within a very short time leaving no distressing after effects.
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Sessions: 4
Book Review: Sidharth Bhatia’s ‘The Patels of Filmindia: Pioneers of Indian Film Journalism’
I have a confession to make: despite my love for cinema, I’ve never been too keen on film magazines. When I was a child, my parents never bought film magazines, and by the time I’d grown into my teens and had the freedom (and pocket money) to buy whatever reading material I chose, all my major interest in films had shifted to films made before I’d even been born.
As a result, I never knew of Filmindia (or, as it was later renamed, Mother India) until a few years ago, when I read, on Greta’s blog, about Baburao Patel and his film magazine, Filmindia. Reading excerpts on Memsaabstory from Filmindia (and, more often than not, snorting out loud at Baburao Patel’s irreverence), or gushing over the fabulous artwork, I couldn’t help but think:if there’s ever one film magazine I would want to read, it would be the erstwhile Filmindia.
When I heard that Sidharth Bhatia was going to be releasing his book on Baburao Patel andFilmindia, I knew this was right up my alley. Not so much for Baburao Patel (who, I had convinced myself, after having read some of his writing, I did not like—not a nice man), but for the art, the ads, the feel of the 30s, the 40s, the 50s. Even the 60s. The golden age of Hindi cinema. That—the cinema—was what I wanted to read about, what I wanted to see.
Bhatia’s book, The Patels of Filmindia: Pioneers of Indian Film Journalism (2015; Indus Source Books, ISBN: 978-81-88569-67-0; 171 pages; Rs 2,000), however, came as a revelation—because it had me deeply engrossed not just in its many excerpts from Filmindia, but in the lives of Baburao Patel and his wife Sushila Rani Patel too.
The first ten chapters of the book trace the lives, both personal and professional, of Baburao Patel and Sushila. Born in 1904, Baburao came to Bombay as a boy when his family shifted to the city, and after a while left off studying formally (though he remained a voracious reader all his life). A brief stint in cinema—as script writer and director—followed, until 1935, when, along with the owner of the New Jack Printing Press, he launched Filmindia. There was no looking back, then: Baburao Patel went from strength to strength, fearless, brusque, and outspoken in his editorials (and most of the articles and film reviews, which he wrote himself).
There are a couple of chapters about Baburao’s pursuit of Sushila (whom he launched in a film and later married—even though he was already married and was nearly 14 years older than her). There are interesting anecdotes about the Patels’ relationships with the who’s who of Indian society—and not just the film world—of that period, of the love-hate relationships, too, with everybody from Noorjehan to KA Abbas to the Anands of Navketan. Baburao Patel and Sushila (who took over her fair share of Filmindia work) were not merely the people who edited and ran India’s best-loved film magazine; they were, obviously, stalwarts in their own right. Worthy enough for Baburao Patel to stand for elections, to win, to convert his magazine from a cinema-oriented one to a mix in which politics dominated.
Following the biographies of Baburao, Sushila, and the magazine they ran for 50 years (Filmindia, later named Mother India shut shop in 1985) comes the magazine itself: 80 pages of reviews, articles, and Question and Answer sections from various issues of Filmindia/Mother India. The reviews range from those of films long forgotten, even lost (like Navketan’s Afsar) to films that are still admired and loved, like Anupama, Devdas, and Kaala Bazaar. The articles run the gamut from ‘howlers’ (Baburao’s word, not mine) from the cinema industry to more general observations on what was wrong (and occasionally, right) with Hindi cinema. Interspersed with the text (which includes images of the original article, as it appeared in the magazine) are lots of images—photographs, advertisements for films (and for other products, ranging from thermos flasks to Lux), and more.
Sometime back, Anu and I were discussing the idea of people dismissing a film because a character (especially a protagonist) is portrayed as less than perfect. Both of us had been of the opinion that a character’s morality (or lack of it) shouldn’t take away from the worth of the film. After all, all stories need not be pretty, and all characters need not be noble and nice.
I was reminded of that while reading this book. Baburao Patel, for all his charisma and fearlessness, comes across as just the sort of person I’d want to steer clear of: rude, sexist, at times bigoted and regressive, hypocritical (to read his fierce indignation about morality as shown onscreen, one would imagine the man to be a saint in his personal life, not the trigamist and serial philanderer he actually was), and—well, generally not likeable. (I will not dwell on his writing, the style of which doesn’t appeal to me—it has an odd, sometimes ungrammatical feel to it that sounds more like Hindi film dialogue translated into English).
Despite that, I’d call this book a keeper. Sidharth Bhatia does a brilliant job of showcasing both the Patels and their creation. The biographies are well told, not too gossipy, not too lengthy. The excerpts chosen for the latter half of the book are well-selected, with an equal mix of well-known films and obscure ones, and films that Baburao lambasted (“C.I.D., in brief, is a tolerably well produced and directed, but cheaply and stupidly conceived, unpalatable crime picture”) to those on which he showered praise (“…Chaudhvin ka Chand is the scintillating result of a rare combination of a good story and skillful presentation…”).
And the images. Nargis and a young Dilip Kumar. Madhubala (a Patel favourite—Sushila Rani Patel taught her English). Durga Khote, Ashok Kumar, Sushila Rani herself in and as Draupadi. Dev Anand. Suraiya, Noorjehan, Raj Kapoor. And dozens of others now long-forgotten. Stills from films, photos from parties and events (Pandit Nehru with Sushila Rani, for instance).
A treat, that’s what this is. And you get to meet two people whose lives could well be the basis of a pretty entertaining film.
You can buy The Patels of Filmindia: Pioneers of Indian Film Journalism here, on Amazon India.
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