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Most of us are now in the last quarter of our life and should read this interesting piece of advice. This is one of the nicest and most gentle articles I’ve read   in a while: No politics, No religion and No racial issues - just food for thought.   You know, time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. It seems just yesterday that I was young and embarking on my new life.  Yet, in a way, it seems like years ago, and I wonder where all the years went? I know that I lived them all. I have glimpses of how it was back then and of all my hopes and dreams. However, here it is, the last quarter of my life and it catches me by surprise !!! How did I get here so fast ?? Where did the years go and where did my youth go?? I remember well, seeing older people through the years and thinking that those older people were years away from me and that I was only on the first quarter and that the fourth quarter was so far off that I could not visualis...

  ENOCH POWELL, British MP: Send them back!! BBC REPORT 1968: More Kenyan Asians flee to Britain   Another 96 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya have arrived in Britain today, the latest in a growing exodus of Kenyan Asians fleeing from laws which prevent them making a living. The party included nine children under two, and all flew in on cut-price one-way tickets costing about £60 - less than half the normal single fare. Omar Sharmar, an Indian who was forced to close his haulage business in Mombasa when the government refused to grant him a licence, estimates he has lost £2,000. “At the present rate this (migration) will continue for at least a year, if not more.” Kenyan airline official. "Only Kenyan citizens are being allowed work permits," he said. "I was forced to sell my fleet of lorries and come to Britain to look for a new life." An airline official in Nairobi estimated that the charter flights had taken between 1,200 and 1,500 Kenyan Asians in...

  Avtar Singh Sohal led his team at the 1971 Barcelona Hockey World Cup Photo: Sikhs in Hockey Kenyan legend recalls glory days October 19, 2017 When you think of hockey powerhouses in the 21st century, you tend to think Netherlands, Argentina, Australia and India; however, back in the 1960s, one of the top teams in the world was the East African nation of Kenya. Kenya appeared at every Olympic Games from 1956 until 1972, with two further appearance in 1984 and 1988. The team’s best finish was sixth in 1964. Captain of the Kenyan team in 1964, 1968 and 1972 was Avtar Singh Sohal, now 78 years old but as devoted to the game as he always has been. Sohal is revered in his adopted country of India, where he is known as ‘Tari', and has been described by journalists and hockey fans as the greatest Indian sportsperson of all time outside India. "After watching magician Dhyan Chand in a match, I developed a keen interest in hockey. His dribbling and dodging were out of this world....

          India's greatest: the late Dyan Chand Independent India’s historical tour of East Africa 1947-48 On 30 January in 1948, Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. That time the Indian men’s hockey team led by Dhyan Chand was touring East Africa. They came to know the assassination when in Dar-es-Salam, Tanganyika. More such details in the meticulously researched article – Editor by Dil Bahra (UK) and Del Mudher (Kenya) (With thanks to Dil and Del) I ndia’s first overseas tour after Independence was to British East Africa in December 1947. Hockey in Kenya during that period was run by The European Hockey Association of Kenya and The Asian Sports Association of Kenya until Hockey Association of Kenya (H.A.K.) (later renamed as Kenya Hockey Union [K.H.U.]) was formed on 2nd June 1949. The Kenya Asian Sports Association, which was founded on 4th August 1912, was the biggest sporting organisation in the country. The leading clubs of the A...