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Montreal
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Canada
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Biography
Sultan Jessa is a Canadian journalist whose parent came from Gujarat. Educated in Tanzania, Britain and Germany, Sultan worked in Tanzania and Kenya for several newspapers and Daily and Sunday Nation newspapers Kenya. He stringed for UPI, Reuters, AP, AFP and Ceteka. In Canada, he started working for the Thompson chain of newspapers. He is now retired but writes columns for newspapers. He was won many awards, including Order of Canada.
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Dr Datoo, whose grandparents came from Gujarat in India, has been presented with the Medal of the Order of Australia for years of service to medicine in rural New South Wales.
A prominent Indian-origin industrialist, Jayantilal Keshavji Chande, passed away in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi at the age of 88. Affectionately known as "Andy", the Tanzanian businessman and a philanthropist, whose parents moved to Africa from India, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.
Dr Shafique Keshavjee, a thoracic surgeon of Indian origin who has years of experience at the forefront of innovative research into lung transplantation, saved a young mother’s life with what is believed to be the world’s first radical procedure.
