Jinja cricket and nonymoose

Here’s an incoming from Mohan Patel, Jinja, avid cricket fan, one of 12s I get per week in a similar artery. Mohan went to England early and worked in the government service. He came into my book because of the section on cricket, helping to populate it with his own memories of cricket Uganda Asians. I include his piece. He brought me a complimentary message from the Home Secretary in the Labour government.
I let the remark about the nonentity stand. I mean I don’t need it, I mean he’s a zealot and I just know I am good and my book’s better than bajra no rotlo. But, hey, Winchester wallah, you who rubbished Sadru Nelsadry as a small-time Kisementi grocer and claimed to have been a member of the Muzungu kalab – Winchester bada-saheb, what more tales have you been sharing with the Polish airheads?

>>>Hello Uganda Asian cricket lovers and all lovers of Uganda pre-1972:
I am writing to say thank you to you all for joining me in preserving the
history of Uganda cricket pre-1972. My own knowledge is mainly confined to
Jinja cricket but it is being continually augmented by stories and photos
from friends all over the world. I have now opened a Facebook page devoted
to cricket Uganda called “cricketugandamohanbhaijee”. Please visit and be
my friend.
>>> I am most grateful to Dr Vali Jamal for giving space in his book as well
as his blog to stories about Uganda cricket. I have not met Vali, except on
the internet and I think I have made a lifelong friend. He is doing an
excellent job and we are looking forward to his book on Uganda Asians which is due out on the 40th anniversary of our expulsion from that wonderful country. I had the privilege of contributing some articles to it and to bring him a foreword from the former British Home Secretary, Mr Alan Johnson, who too is looking forward to this book.
>>> Among my family members I have to thank my young niece Dipa who encouraged me to learn IT in January 2006 when my wife Geeta was down for intensive treatment at Mayday Hospital. She typed my story of how I became a cricket-scorer. Of course names and places were alien to her and they got left in in the Jinja Reunion brochure. Nishma, daughter of Dipa's elder sister Mina, and her father created my first e-mail address. Nimmi, my wife Geeta's younger sister and her husband Vinod and their nephew Jayesh installed their second-hand computer in my box room so that I could start my
computer classes. They used to run a flourishing photographic business in London few years ago but due to the advent of digital cameras their business died down.
>>>I enrolled at Croydon College in May 2006 and in the last four
years have managed to pass exams in Word Processing, Excel, Spreadsheets,
and Power Point at Level 1 and am attending Word and Power Point classes
in Part 2. I am learning to create an Adobe website since I have managed to
pass courses in Photo Shop. It was tough but I persevered through the
support of family and friends.
>>>Vali Jamal’s book and blog will endure despite some very nasty posts by an anonymous blogger. It’s regrettable from someone who claims to come from a reputable family and having been to an expensive school. From his knowledge of tailors where Jinja players got their blazers made, I can see he’s a Jinja boy. Jinja was a very democratic town and such behaviour is not
welcome by any of my friends. It smacks of a mentality nurtured during our
colonial days.
>>>>mohan patel