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By Sarina Menezes Behind the jars of Patak\\\’s pickles, pastes and spices on the supermarket shelf is a family rags-to-riches saga that began when Indian-born Laxmishankar Pathak left an unfriendly Kenya for London with his wife and six children in 1956. He even dropped the \\\”h\\\” from the Pathak name to make it easier for […]

By Rudy Otter During the British Raj in India a new community was spawned by the union of white settler men and Indian women. Called Anglo-Indians, they aligned themselves to the British,and when freedom-hungry Indians mounted their frenzied “Quit India” campaigns, the Anglo-Indians assumed they too had to leave and go “home” to Britain, a

The United Kingdom spends billions of sterling pounds annually to provide welfare services to those who have fallen on hard times. But its welfare system has been grossly abused by foreigners and Britons who, despite being employed, earn a side income from these handouts. Some Asians have built empires on these handouts. SHAMLAL PURI in