Queries and e-mails wishing a quick recovery to billiards player Wilson Jones continue to pour in since The Indian Express highlighted the plight of India’s first world champion. Monetary aid has also been pouring in. Here’s a fresh list of major contributors:• Sports Authority of India, Delhi, has announced aid of Rs 40,000.• Former world billiards champion Michael Ferreira has collected Rs 27,000 from Nagpur. The break-up: Farokh Shapoorji, industrialist Rs 21,000; Gondwana Club Rs 5,000; Ferreira Rs 5,000; a well-wisher Rs 1,000.• Member of Parliament Beatrix D’Souza has sent a cheque of Rs 10,000• Karsondhas Vissanji Trust has sent aid of Rs 25,000• Former cricketer Ravi Shastri and wife Ritu sent Rs 25,000• CM Sushil Kumar Shinde sanctioned Rs 1 lakh, sent directly to the hospitalLetters have also been coming in.• Dear Wilson,You are still India’s hero. All Indians pray for your speedy recovery. All the very best.— Edward Haeems, Ahmedabad• As a Member of Parliament, representing the Anglo-Indian Community, we are proud to have a dignified sportsperson like Wilson Jones amongst us. I wish him a speedy recovery.— Dr Beatrix D’Souza, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)• I pray that Jones will recover soon. He has done his motherland proud. May all his near and dear ones see him home very soon.— Prasad Lele, Baroda
