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Using a globe-wide form of words, Ranjit Singh Mann was\ninducted into the Rotary Club of Leicester Novus by President Jason Chauhan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was followed by another, much less formal event which has\nbecome a tradition at Leicester Novus; a chat-show type interview conducted by\nthe club\u2019s third president Frazer Robson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is much more in the style of Michael Parkinson than\nJeremy Paxman. Nonetheless, it revealed that the 10-year-old Ranjit\nimpersonated his father to get a place at Beaumont Leys School so he could go\nup to secondary school with friends. It was a deception that paid off with\nRanjit then going to Gateway College where his A-levels got him into Aston\nUniversity, Birmingham, where he got his Pharmacy degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also revealed that having tried to open a brand-new pharmacy\nwith a friend when he was aged 26 or 27, he succeeded largely because potential\ncustomers in Coventry signed a petition in favour. It had been touch and go,\nbut the business opened six weeks after the birth of his first daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1991 Ranjit returned to university to do a year\u2019s\npost-graduate course in clinical pharmacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pharmacy \u2013 where Ranjit worked for 34 years \u2013 proved\nvery successful, with one of his pharmacy assistants winning \u00a32,000 in 1999 for\nbeing the best pharmacy assistant in the UK. Ranjit was a member of the local\npharmacy committee and was its treasurer for 13years. In that same year Ranjit\nwas invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In 2001 his business was\njudged the best UK pharmacy business of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ranjit said: \u201cAlthough the business was in Coventry,\nLeicester was always my home and commuting there was quite easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although \u2018retired\u2019 Ranjit does some locum work on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (Tuesdays and Thursdays are reserved for his grandchildren). He says: \u201cI miss the contact with the patients and the staff, but I don\u2019t miss the admin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Interviewer Frazer asked about his other leisure activities and for a while the session sounded more like Gardeners\u2019 Question Time as fellow-members offered advice on how to get ride of a wasps\u2019 nest, pigeons and moss in his lawn. He has had a couple of flying lessons, used to go sailing (he sailed for Leicestershire before going to university) and rowing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Travel, including back to the Punjab where he was born in\n1957, and to Singapore and Alaska remain happy memories and feature in his\nplans for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ranjit said: \u201cOver the years I have worked in the country\nand had a good life, and now I want to try to give something back to the\ncommunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the audience for the interview session was Ranjit\u2019s wife,\nJasbir, who is a founder-member of Novus Rotary. The club is certainly unique\nin the East Midlands in now having five married couples in its membership of 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you like what you read about Novus Rotary on this website and would like to know more about joining our family of people who want to work together to \u2018give something back\u2019, please email RotaryClubOfLeicesterNovus@gmail.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Last edited: May 9, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Using a globe-wide form of words, Ranjit Singh Mann was inducted into the Rotary Club of Leicester Novus by President Jason Chauhan. It was followed by another, much less formal event which has become a tradition at Leicester Novus; a chat-show type interview conducted by the club\u2019s third president Frazer Robson. It is much more … <\/p>\n