Stolen Treasure

About the Book

Stolen Treasure is a book almost 70 years in the writing! Written over the decades since 1946, this collection of observations, quotes, proverbs, witticisms and rules for living have guided the author since his youth growing up in India, through his time in the Indian Navy, and for the bulk of his life since moving to Ireland in 1960. Now in his mid-80s, the author presents a lifetime of humour and words of wisdom for a happy life in this book.

A true treasure collection of one-line gems and snip-bits of life’s experiences, the book presents an insight into the observations of life over the author’s lifetime that so many of us experience but never document. At first, observations from an idealistic young man are presented. This is followed by wisdom learned in early adulthood and gathered as an Officer with the Indian Navy. The observations continue from a happy lifetime in Ireland with a large focus on what the author learned about life as a husband and father, as well as engineer and lecturer, to retiree.

These have been collected over the years as the author has experienced them in life or overheard them in social occasions, and carefully recorded by hand. In the decades before the internet and social media, these were the original status updates that tell a story of how life and perception of what matters has changed over almost 70 years.

An intriguing read for every person of all ages and all interests.

About the Author

Glenn Mehta BBS (Hons), MA (Research) is a lecturer in Social Media, Management Communications and Tourism at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght in South-West Dublin since 2001. An avid researcher in Web 2.0 and social media communications with a focus on the implementation of social media strategies to improve customer engagement and company profitability, he has devised strategies for several Irish-based organisations on the effective use of basic social technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google in their business models, and has developed methods to use social networking effectively in his career as lecturer and management consultant.