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The
Sunday
Telegraph,
August
10,
1975
Who
gets
into
the
Asian
‘Who’s
Who’?
FOLLOWING
Mandrake's
r
report
two
weeks
ago
on
the
change
of
address
of
A.
&
C.
Black,
publishers
of
"Who's
Who,"
there
is
news
that
another
publisher
is
bringing
out
in
the
autumn
the
first
ever
"Who's
Who"
of
Asians
living
in
this
country.
They
have
been
beaten
to
the
draw
by
the
newspaper
Westindian
World
who
brought
out
the
third
edition
of
their
West
Indian
"Who's
Who"
last
month,
with
a
colour
photograph
of
a
beaming
Lord
Pitt,
sporting
his
red
robes,
on
the
cover.
The
former
G.L.C.
chairman
hopes
that
the
book,
which
contains
pictures
of
Clive
Lloyd,
pop
groups
and
a
mysterious
gentleman
in
dark
glasses,
will
serve
as
an
inspiration
to
other
members
of
the
community.
Originally,
two
separate
Asian
versions
were
due
to
be
published:
one
by
Kanti
Nagda,
a
29-year-old
accountant
who
arrived
penniless
from
Uganda
three
years
ago,
and
the
other
by
Jasbir
Singh
Sachar,
a
39
year-old
Sikh
schoolteacher
at
a
special
school
for
the
educationally
sub-normal
in
London.
When
they
discovered
they
were
on
the
same
track,
they
sensibly
decided
to
pool
their
efforts
and
bring
out
a
joint
"International
Asian
Guide
and
Directory
(including
Who's
Who.)"
Nagda's
criterion
for
selection
was
that
those
chosen
“should
have
done
something
for
the
betterment
of
Asians.”
Entrants
include
councillors,
businessmen
and
officials
prominent
in
race
relations.
With
remarkable
financial
acumen
Nagda
has
got
in
many
of
his
ex-Ugandan
refugee
mates,
which
won't
do
anything
to
impede
sales.
Significantly,
the
least
important
submitted
the
longest
entries.
But
at
£1.50
the
book
will
be
a
good
buy,
considering
the
amount
of
valuable
information
on
Asian
societies,
associations,
newspapers,
and
120
Hindu
and
Sikh
temples
and
150
mosques.
The
contributions
under
social
and
business
achievements
provide
an
insight
into
the
values
of
the
community.
Mohammad
Saeed,
a
Bradford
company
director,
disclosed
that
"through
my
hard
work
I
had
the
opportunity
to
go
to
the
Queen's
Garden
Party
in
1972."
In
the
same
vein,
Tara
Mukherjee,
a
district
manager
of
a
unit
trust,
said
that
among
his
achievements
he
had
been
"presented
to
Her
Majesty
the
Queen
and
the
Duke
of
Edinburgh.
Nirmal
Roy,
a
former
race
relations
officer,
declared:
"I
have
stood
up
for
the
universal
principles
of
man
and
have
helped
to
promote
a
new
kind
of
culture
based
on
tolerance,
compassion,
social
justice
and
understanding."
And
then
there
is
Ratilal
Vasanji
Ganatra,
a
Leicester
businessman.
He
felt
he
merited
inclusion
-
well,
because
of
"his
lovely,
friendly
and
co-operative
nature."
Ratilal,
you're
in.
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