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My Life in Kenya Part – 3 “Life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” John Rohn                                                                                                             The winds of change continued to blow in Kenya during the Mau Mau era. (1952/1960) It was a time of nervousness and trepidation for everybody, especially those living in the up-country farms. Freedom is not free. The Kikuyu tribe we...

By Mr Jagjit Singh Alhuwalia , whose eldest brother The late Gurdial Singh Alhuwalia was one of the most prominent political and communal personalities in pre and post independent Uganda. Jagjit was a former school mate of John Noronha's and is currently a solicitor in the United Kingdom Ladies and Gentleman, Family Friends and Members of the Second, Third and Fourth Generations of Shafiq, Leana and Gurdial’s families, we are gathered today to pay tribute to the memory of Leana Arain.   Her life and work was of course closely linked to that of her husband Shafiq and their closest friend Gurdial Singh, who was my eldest brother.   The story of their lives is basically the story of three continents, three families and the setting of the sun on an empire. It is also the story of four generations over the period of three centuries.   It is a story stretching from the sub-continent of India to East Africa and Great Britain – the centre of the British Empire...