Sascha Wil­son

The life and writ­ings of for­mer pres­i­dent Noor Has­sanali will be housed in the li­brary at his al­ma mater Na­pari­ma Col­lege in com­mem­o­ra­tion of the school's 118th an­niver­sary. The Noor Has­sanali Her­itage Col­lec­tion was launched on Mon­day dur­ing the school's Founder's Day cel­e­bra­tion un­der the theme "Nur­tur­ing the Vi­sion of Our Found­ing Fa­thers." Held in the school's au­di­to­ri­um/gym­na­si­um, the func­tion was at­tend­ed by Has­sanali's wid­ow, Za­lay­har Has­sanali. Prin­ci­pal Michael Dowlath re­called that at the school's 100th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions in 1994, Has­sanali de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress. He said the Has­sanali Col­lec­tion would be housed in the school's ex­tend­ed li­brary.

Dowlath said RIK Book Store had agreed to sup­ply the li­brary with new fur­ni­ture and to spon­sor the sec­tion of the fa­cil­i­ty that would dis­play the Noor Has­sanali Her­itage Col­lec­tion. The project is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed by Au­gust 2012 in time for the new aca­d­e­m­ic year. In the fea­ture ad­dress at Mon­day's launch, re­tired Jus­tice of Ap­peal Ralph Nar­ine, 90, re­flect­ed on how the col­lege was born and the life of his for­mer school­mate and col­league. "He was my play­mate...He was my pro­fes­sion­al col­league," said Nar­ine, adding that Has­sanali be­came a stu­dent, teacher, sports­man, lawyer and judge. He said their in­spi­ra­tion came from Na­pari­ma Col­lege which had spawned sports­men, politi­cians and pro­fes­sion­als of every kind.