Mohammed Ali Qamar helped India win it’s first gold medal in boxing at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002. It was far from an easy journey for the talented boxer from Kidderpore in Kolkata. Qamar’s father enrolled him into boxing at a very young age at Kidderpore School of Physical Education. He was trained by Cheena Bhai in his early years.
Qamar started showing signs of improvement at the junior level by winning important matches that would go on to shape his career. His first big win came in 1991 when we was crowned the Inter-district champion in West Bengal. He extended his winning run to the national sub-junior levels as he was undefeated for four straight years 1992-1996. The Indian showed immense resolve before losing to Ron Siler in the quarterfinals of the 1999 World Amateur boxing championships in Houston.
Qamar took on home favorite Darren Langley in the finals in the Light Flyweight category at the Commonwealth Games. Langley was leading for most part of the summit clash, but the Indian did not give up as he outscored his British opponent 10-3 in the latter stages of the match. He also survived a standing count before he outmanoeuvred the Brit 27-25 to clinch the gold.
He lost in the quarterfinals of the 2002 Busan Asian Games.
A career that promised so much was cut short by injuries. Qamar, who shares his name with the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali slipped into oblivion after his historic win in Manchester.
Kidderpore is now the hub of women’s boxing in India. Boxers who train at the place consider Qamar as their inspiration. Indian fans can only hope that these women can go on to win medals for India.
source: http://www.sportskeeda.com / SportsKeeda / Homepage> Boxing / by Jaiprakash @jaiprakashmr / December 27th, 2014
Manchester, Birmingham City University – UNITED KINGDOM :
Islam Issa, lecturer in English literature, at the “Stories of Sacrifice” exhibition at The British Muslim Heritage Centre in Manchester. (Birmingham City University)
Previously unreported letters from the early 1900s by some of India’s Muslim soldiers who fought in World War 1 have been disclosed by a literature expert at Birmingham City University.
Islam Issa, lecturer in English literature, previously found that at least 885,000 Muslims were recruited by the Allies, having trawled through thousands of personal letters, historic archives, regimental diaries and census reports.
New personal letters discovered by Issa from more than 100 years ago highlight the experiences of Indian soldiers as they shared their impressions of England in comparison to their home country, a university statement said.
Commenting on the police in a letter dated October 1915, A Ali wrote: “The police indeed deserve praise. If one policeman raises his hand every single person in that direction, rich and poor alike, stands still where he is as long as his hand is raised.”
On his trip to a London department store, Ali said: “We visited a shop where 2000 men and women were working and everything can be bought. There is no need of asking as the price is written on everything.”
In the same letter, he shared his experience of the London Underground. “Then we went in the train that goes under the earth, it was for us a strange and wonderful experience – they call it the underground train,” he said.
Issa has been researching individual stories from the Great War for an exhibition commissioned by and held at the British Muslim Heritage Centre in Manchester, called “Stories of Sacrifice”.
In another 1915 letter by Abdul Said, more opinions on shopping and butchers are shared. “Every shop in this country is so arranged that one is delighted to look at them. Whether you buy much or little it is properly wrapped up, and if you tell the shop man to send it to your house. You have only to give him your address and he delivers it.
“The butcher’s shops in Hindustan are very dirty, but here they are so clean and tidy that there is absolutely no smell.”
During his research, Issa found that 1.5 million Indians, 280,000 Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians and soldiers recruited from other parts of Africa fought for the Allies during World War 1.
The contribution of Muslims to the Allied forces during World War 1. (Islam Issa)
“When I decided to look at soldiers’ letters, I expected a very bleak outlook on the war. Of course, sometimes, that’s exactly what I found. But quite often, the letters were about individual experiences and very normal, human things,” said Issa.
“These anecdotes certainly helped shape my narrative for the ‘Stories of Sacrifice’ exhibition. While there’s an important narrative about the war as a whole, the personal and human narrative was probably more striking. Whatever your ideology or stance, you end up realising that these Muslim soldiers were individual humans and as a result, they were making sacrifices at that individual, human level.”
Complete with a virtual library, lesson plans and a toolkit for schools, the British Muslim Heritage Centre’s exhibition is the first long-term event of its kind, devoted solely to exemplifying the Muslim community’s contribution and sacrifices during World War 1, the statement added.
The exhibition was part of Sadiq Khan’s first visit outside London as mayor, and was also recently visited by the head of the British Army, Gen Sir Nick Carter.
source: http://www.hindustantimes.com / Hindustan Times / Home> epaper> World / by Prasun Sonwalkar, Hindustan Times / November 12th, 2016
Dar Yasin’s April 7, 2016 photograph of a militan’s funeral bagged it second position in Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
KL NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar :
Photojournalist Dar Yasin, working for American news agency, Associated Press (AP), has bagged the prestigious Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar award.
Dar Yasin (AP)
His photograph was adjudged as the second best in the general news category.
The click that bagged the award is a photograph showing Kashmiri Muslims climbed on trees to watch the funeral procession of Waseem Malla, a suspected militant of Hizb ul Mujahideen, in Pehlipora. Clicked on Thursday, April 7, 2016 photo, the village where the funeral took place is more than 65 kms south of Srinagar.
Dar is a decorated photo-journalist whose clicks earlier have also brought him many laurels. He has been covering Kashmir for the AP for more than a decade now.
The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, America’s longest continuously operating photojournalism conference, started in 1973. Its 2016 edition took place on November 11-12, 2016 at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast.
source: http://www.kashmirlife.net / Kashmir Life / Home> Latest News / KL News Network / Sunday – November 13th, 2016
A resident of Tarkpora village in Bandipora district, Islam is a student of the Army Goodwill School.
Eight-year-old Kashmiri girl on Friday created history by winning the gold medal for India in the world Kick Boxing Championship of under-eight players in Italy’s Andria.
“In five days, Tajamul Islam won six games,” said her coach Master Fasil Ali.
She defeated her rival from the U.S. to become the world champion in the kick boxing championship. She is first such player to achieve the feat from the volatile Kashmir Valley.
A Class 2 student, Islam represented India in Italy where the World Kick Boxing Championship, in which 90 countries participated, was underway.
“She (Islam) has created history by winning a gold medal in the game at the age of eight,” said PDP leader Waheed Parra, who is also J&K State Sports Council secretary.
In 2015, Islam won the national recognition after bagging the gold medal in sub-junior category National Kickboxing Championship in New Delhi.
A resident of Tarkpora village in Bandipora district, 65 km from Srinagar, Islam is a student of the Army Goodwill School.
Ms. Islam’s brother and two sisters also practice kickboxing.
Appreciating the talent, State Education Minister Nayeem Akhtar said, “It’s a proud moment”.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport> Other Sports / by Peerzada Ashiq / Srinagar – November 11th, 2016
Haseeb Hameed, cricket of Indian origin, made his debut for England against India at the age of 19.
Touted as the most promising batsman teenager around, Haseeb Hameed made his U-19 debut at the age of 17.
Ismail Hameed had an unusual hero, while growing up as a cricket-obsessed youngster in Gujarat in the mid 70s. It was the usual Kapil Dev or Sunil Gavaskar. Or Kris Srikkanth or Dilip Vengsarkar. It was that stodgy English technician, Geoffrey Boycott, who by then was treading the sunset of his career.
In the late 80s, he shifted to Bolton for a better livelihood. He might have been busy yarning a better livelihood in a textile factory, though he still squeezed in time to represent semi-professional leagues in his locality. And when he expanded his household, he dusted up that old fixation for Boycott.
He bought old video tapes of Boycott and religiously showed them to his three sons, Safwaan, Numan and Haseeb. He would then make them “bat like Boycott” for hours on end in the neighbouring park. Soon, Ismail gave up his job in the factory and became a driving instructor so that he could spend more time drilling the technique of Boycott into his sons. The third son, though, showed more inclination to bowling and he would join his brothers and father in the park after school.
To his credit, Ismail straightaway made them bat and bowl with the leather ball. So the boys shed the fear of the leather ball at a young age. The older boys were in the Lancashire U-15 team as pure batsmen. But Haseeb’s first love was always leg-spin bowling, and it was as a leggie who could bat that he was picked for the Lancashire U-15 team, when he was just eight.
Maybe Haseeb was such a naturally talented batsman that his batting potential couldn’t be obscured for long. During a club game, he made an unbeaten 19 for his club Tong CC, which wowed the coach and senior players in the side. In a couple of seasons, he showed such precocious potential that he was opening the innings for his club and Lanchasire. His narrative was just beginning to unfold.
Hours of watching Boycott’s footages and twice as many hours of technical finetuning under his father’s gaze—his father is still his coach and mentor—helped him evolve into a fine batsman with a composure and belief that belied his age. The conditions back home too helped develop a compact technique. “The nature of the pitches, typical league cricket up north where it rains a lot; it’s slow and low, helped me. You’ve got to be careful driving on the up and the like. I had to wait for the ball and not leave my bubble, be patient. It’s always been that way for me,” he told The Guardian in an interview early this year.
Touted as the most promising batsman teenager around, he made his U-19 debut at the age of 17, and soon he was touring Australia for an U-19 Test series. In the first innings in Perth, he made a duck, but in the second he epitomised all the virtues his father’s idol had embodied in his career. Trailing by 300-odd runs, he engineered a resillient reardguard operation, soaking up 256 balls for an unbeaten, eventually match-saving 91.The effort earned him the moniker “Lancashire Wall”. That was only a preface.
Soon, he was blooded into the Lancashire first team. Last August, he was handed out his debut, against Glamorgan. He composed 28 off 119 balls in difficult conditions. However, for all his crease-occupation, a century eluded him, until his 11th match, against Warwickshire when he scored a crabby 103 off 295 balls, spending six-and-a-half hours at the crease against a rounded attack comprising former England bowler Samit Patel and Boyd Rankin.
More centuries flowed from his bat. He then became the first Lancashire batsman to score back-to-back hundreds against Yorkshire, showing again his fondness for occupying the crease. He batted for five hours for 114 in the first innings before reeling off, to show his other side of batsmanship, with a brisk 100 off 124 balls, against a bowling firm that featured Tim Bresnan, Ryan Sidebottom and Adil Rashid.
The knock fetched him instant applause from present and former players was a match-saving 122, occupying the crease for more than six hours, in the second dig against Nottinghamshire, whose bowling unit featured Stuart Broad and Imran Tahir. Thus in 31 innings, he racked up 1411 runs at an average of 50.39. And per innings, he consumes an average of 117 balls.
Among those wowed by his batting is former English skipper and opener Mike Atherton, who has dubbed his batting “Atherton-like”. Former Lancashire colleague and South Africa batsman Ashwell Prince says “he’s born to bat”. In the county circuit, he is called “Bolton Blocker” and “Bolton Boycott”.
If he makes his England debut against Bangladesh or later against India, he will be the youngest English debutant since Ben Hollioke and only the second teenager to play for England in the last 67 years.
While his father wants his son to keep producing Boycott-like knocks, Haseeb has bigger ambitions. “I want to emulate guys Kohli, Root, Williamson, players who play very organised cricket across the three formats extremely well. If you’ve got the basics and you’re strong in your basics, then you can develop your game very quickly. You just need to watch Kohli, the way he manipulates gaps so well and times the ball. I’m confident that down the line I’ll be able to do that as well.”
source: http://www.indianexpress.com / Indian Express / Home> Express Sports / by Sandeep G / November 09th, 2016
Since Hillary Clinton began her Presidential campaign last year, the name of Huma Abedin, her top personal assistant has been heard in US media. As part of Hillary’s campaign organization and its vice-chair, she interviewed and recommended senior staffers including campaign manager, Robin Mauk for hiring.
Last week as FBI leaked news that they want to investigate some emails that Huma sent to Hillary from her husband’s (Anthony Weiner) laptop , the news created a firestorm in US as the general election was just 10 days away. Since last Friday, Huma’s name, photograph and personal information have been broadcast continously by many TV networks, and US newspapers have written about it. Hillary’s Republican opponent in the Presidential race, Donald Trump, has asked Hillary to fire Huma. But Hillay and her campaign have not spoken a word about her and are instead attacking FBI Director for sensationalizing an unfounded news that was already settled by FBI in last July.
Everyone in US wants to know, who is Huma Abedin? Huma is an Indian-American Muslim, the daughter of a distinguished Indian Muslim professor, Dr Abedin, a graduate of Aligarh Muslim University., who migrated to US in mid 1960s. He has since passed away. Her mother is a professor in a university in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Huma graduated from the George Washington University, Washington DC, at a time when Bill Clinton was US President and Hillary was the US First Lady. Huma joined the White House as an intern on the staff of the First Lady..
Huma soon became Hillary’s prominent staffer and as Hillary moved to New York in 2000 and became a senator from New York, Huma worked on her senate campaign and then became a key staffer in Senator Hillary’s office in Washington DC. When Hillary became US Secretary of State, Huma was her deputy chief of staff. The US media calls Huma Hillary Clinton’s Body – Woman. If anyone wants to meet Hillary Clinton he has to go through Huma. Indeed, Huma has had a most enviable climb as a key political staffer in the cut-throat high politics world of Washington.
When some extreme right winger Republican politicians like Congresswoman Michel Bachman of Minnesota attacked her four years ago, calling her a radical Muslim with connections with radical Arab Muslims, many Republican leaders including senior senator John McCain too defended Huma against those charges. Through her 20 year long association with Hillary, Huma who is not yet 40, has moved skillfully and quickly through the minefield of Washington politics and has earned praise from senior level Democratic party politicians. The current attack on Huma and tying her emails to Hillary is a destructive and vile move of Donald Trump, who is targeting her because she is a woman, she is an immigrant and she is a Muslim.
Yet, in her extraordinarily fortunate career Huma has run into bad luck on an important issue. And that is her marriage to former Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York in 2010. He committed some sexual improperieties and was forced to resign his seat in US House of Representatives in the Congress. Also his name has been sullied much in the US media. This year Huma who has a child from Weiner, separated from him.
The smoke about the current email confusion created by FBI Director Como, an erstwhile Republican party member, will clear in a few days before the November 9 US election. Hopefully we will see Trump’s unfounded attack on the emails of Huma and Hillary blunted. And God willing next week Hillary will win the election to become US President. That will be the day many all over the world are waiting for. Thereafter, Huma is expected to get a good position in the Hillary Whitehouse and do well in safeguarding Hillary’s programs. .
Now all this has prepared Huma very well to run and win an elected office in the US Congress in her own right. The right thing will be for Huma to run for a Congresswoman position from New York in a couple of years, carrying Hillary Clinton’s torch of justice and equal rights for women and immigrants in America..While several women have become the political heads in countries like UK, Germany, Italy, Norway and other countries in Europe, in US the opposition to a woman becoming a top political leader is very strong and visible. Not only Hillary Clinton, despite her life long record of political actions at the national level and having held prominent positions of responsibility in the government, has faced opposition, other women too have faced similar opposition when they have tried to run for high political office. .
For instance Speaker of the House of Representatives about 5 years ago , Nancy Pelosi has faced so many bitter attacks and insults from right winger Republican politicians. In 1984 when the late Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro ran as Vice President candidate with Walter Mondale as the Presidential candidate on the ticket, she was lampooned, condemned and insulted. This is a hard glass ceiling for women in US that they must break through. Huma Abedin must follow through in the footsteps of her illustrious mentor Hillary to carry this movement forward to empower women in US.
[The writer is the Executive Director of the Association of Indian Muslims of America, Washington DC.]
source: http://www.ummid.com / Ummid.com / Home> Views & Analysis / by Kaleem Kawaja, ummid.com / Tuesday – November 01st, 2016
An extract from Kate Brittlebank’s Tiger: The Life of Tipu Sultan.
Tipu Sultan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Karnataka government’s decision to celebrate the birth anniversary of Tipu Sultan has once against created a controversy, with the BJP and the RSS as well as local groups in Kodagu district opposing the move. A rally against the proposed celebration is planned in Bangalore on Tuesday. Last year, the government’s decision led to large-scale violence; this year, a case was filed against the move, but the court’s declined to interfere, calling it a policy decision. At the same time, the judges asked what the rationale was to hold such a celebration.
Was Tipu Sultan (1750-1799) a hero or a villain and was he, as is claimed, against Hindus? Some scholars have contested these views. In this excerpt from her book Tiger: The Life of Tipu Sultan, historian Kate Brittlebank gives a more nuanced and holistic view of the man and the monarch, who, she says, was a product of his times.
Kate Brittlebank Tiger: The Life of Tipu Sultan Juggernaut, 2016
It was also important, if Tipu were to retain power, that he tap into the south’s shared sacred landscape, and it is in this light that we should read his patronage of religious institutions, which was widespread. For centuries, kings had associated themselves with the sacred sites of the region, the most significant being the river Kaveri, the Ganges of the south. Rising in the hills of Kodagu, the river wends its way across the Mysore plateau and down onto the plains of Tamil Nadu. Its entire length is dotted with religious landmarks, small and large. For south Indian kings the Kaveri was not only the source of life-giving water but also of divine power. Along the river are three islands, formed where the water divides: from east to west, they are Srirangam, Sivasamudram and Srirangapattana. These are the places where Vishnu sleeps upon the great serpent Sesha, when he is known as Sri Ranganatha, and on the islands are temples dedicated to the deity. The most magnificent is at Srirangam but all were recipients of past royal patronage; in 1610, Raja Wodeyar transferred his capital to Srirangapattana from Mysore after seizing the island from the Vijayanagara viceroy, Tirumala.
Given that the island of Srirangapattana was such a significant repository of divine power, Tipu would have been foolhardy to transfer his capital elsewhere. He continued the Wodeyars’ patronage of the Sri Ranganatha temple, alongside which stood his main palace, and erected a Friday mosque. Haidar’s tomb stood at the other end of the island, near the sangam, next to which Tipu built another, smaller mosque. Put simply, lordly benefaction, one of the defining characteristics of Indian kingship, was pragmatic in purpose. Along with their magnificent displays of power and wealth, kings were expected to be conspicuously pious. They made land grants, donated precious artefacts and mediated in religious disputes. In return, they could expect support for the legitimacy of their rule and prayers for the security and prosperity of the realm. Tipu behaved no differently: his generosity to temples, Sufi dargahs and mosques, as well as the great Math at Sringeri, are well documented, primarily through inscriptions and institutional records.
An idea of the number of Tipu’s religious endowments across his realm can be gained by looking at in‘am registers held in the Kozhikode Archives in Kerala. The records show that Tipu authorised sixty-seven grants of rent-free land, primarily to temples and mosques, solely for the taluks of Calicut, Ernad, Bettathnad and Chowghat. If we extrapolate that figure across the entire realm, it is clear that his patronage of such institutions was extensive. We know of several temples that hold objects donated by Tipu – the Sri Ranganatha temple at the capital received silver vessels, the Nanjundeshwara temple at Nanjangud has a jadeite linga said to have been installed on Tipu’s orders, and inscriptions record that he gave elephants and silver vessels to the Narayanaswami temple in Melukote.
The Sringeri Math, with which Tipu maintained a close relationship, received gifts of valuable cloths and shawls, a silver palanquin and a pair of silver fly whisks. The importance of the Math to south Indian and Deccani rulers – both Hindu and Muslim – since its foundation in the eighth century, is demonstrated by the fact that it holds more than 200 copperplate grants and sanads, the earliest dating from the Ganga dynasty (c. 250–1000 ce). Tipu referred to the Math’s Swami as the Jagadguru and, after the Marathas had raided the Math in 1792, he wrote in a letter that the culprits would ‘suffer the consequences of their misdeeds at no distant date in the Kali age’, concluding that ‘treachery to gurus will undoubtedly result in the destruction of the line of descent’.
The political nature of religious patronage was also the rationale behind acts of destruction. All across India, whenever a king conquered another, he signalled his victory by either seizing or destroying the religious sites with close ties to his victim – and it made no difference if conqueror and conquered were co-religionists. Just as Shaivite and Vaishnava dynasties in south India patronised mosques, dargahs and churches, they did not hesitate to capture the temples of their enemies and seize or destroy the images. The Cholas seized temple images from the Calukyas; and Vijayanagara’s Krishnadevaraya, to celebrate his defeat of the Gajapati king, removed an image of Balakrishna from Udayagiri to the capital. We can see this process in operation with Tipu’s demolition of the Varahaswami temple at Srirangapattana; after his death, the Wodeyars, in a statement of their own ‘victory’, relocated the ruined temple’s image to Mysore town, which once again was serving as their capital. If Tipu’s actions had been driven by religious rather than political motivation, he would not have allowed the Sri Ranganatha temple to continue to flourish within sight of his palace. It was the Wodeyars’ direct association with Vishnu’s boar incarnation that led to Tipu’s demolition of the Varaha temple. Nor were Christians exempt from such treatment – the Venkataramana temple in Nagar (formerly Haidarnagar/Bednur) possesses a bell cast in Amsterdam in 1713. The presence of this oddity in a Hindu place of worship is due to Tipu’s removal of it from a church in Malabar.
Similarly, Tipu did not discriminate against particular religious groups on the basis of their faith – indeed, his diwan or chief minister, Purnaiya, was a Hindu. As we have already seen, Tipu suspected the Kanara Christians of treachery and being in league with the British; the Nairs and the Kodavas, too, were punished for intriguing against him. And if there should be any doubt about what lay behind the treatment of such groups, the expulsion of the Mahdevis from Mysore in 1794 confirms the political character of such acts. This tight-knit Muslim community of several thousand mainly served in Tipu’s army as horse soldiers, under the command of their own officers. That Tipu was in no way prejudiced against this sect is demonstrated by the fact that one of his four vakils to Istanbul, Ja‘far Khan, was a Mahdevi; even so, he too was expelled in 1794. The stated reason for the community’s expulsion was their refusal to obey Tipu’s command to keep certain celebrations low-key – they were prone to noisy bouts of praying – as the festivities that year coincided with the return of the hostage princes from Madras. The more likely reason, however, was that Tipu suspected the Mahdevis of treason, with their festival disobedience merely the trigger for the order that they leave the kingdom. Interestingly, during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, many of them served under Arthur Wellesley as irregular horse, although it is not clear if this was a consequence of Tipu’s treatment of them, or if Tipu had been correct in his original assumption of their disloyalty.
Excerpted with the permission of Juggernaut Books from Tiger: The Life of Tipu Sultan by Kate Brittlebank, available in bookstores and on the Juggernaut app
HERITAGE WATCH: The Abdul Wahab Khan tomb in Kurnool. Photo: U. Subramanyam
The Archaeological Survey of India, which is protecting the monument, will carry out repairs to the 400-year-old structure in Kurnool
The mausoleum or tomb of Abdul Wahab Khan here is going to get a facelift soon. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) which is protecting the monument has embarked upon the project to carry out repairs to the 400-year-old structure. The Union Tourism Department also announced a grant of Rs. 2 crore for the development of the tomb as tourist spot.
The magnificent structure stands on the bank of river Hundri near Osmania College.
The structure believed to have been constructed in 1618 after death of Abdul Wahab Khan, first nawab of Kurnool, comprises two domes, three verandahs, five arches and parapet walls. The workmanship which is intact four centuries after it was unveiled is much admired.
According to history, Abdul Wahab Khan, Governor of Bijapur Sultan laid siege to Kurnool Fort but failed in his first attempt.
Araviti Gopal Raju, last Kurnool king of Vijayanagara empire, was backed by his relations from Anegondi, Ghani, Own and Penugonda and repulsed the attack. However, when the Bijapur army struck second time, the Kurnool king was left alone and ultimately defeated.
In reward of his victory, the Bijapur Sultan declared Wahab Khan as Nawab of Kurnool. However, his dynasty was replaced by Dawood Khan Panni, representative of Aurangazeb, whose successors continued till the end of 1839 when the British defeated Gulam Rasool Khan.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Vijayawada / by Special Correspondent / Kurnool – July 02nd, 2013
Rummana Hussain, a painter and conceptual artist who was also active in Indian politics, died on July 5 at her home in Bombay. She was 47.
The cause was cancer, said the photographer Ram Rahman, a friend.
Ms. Hussain, who came from a prominent Muslim family in Bombay, was for much of her career a painter of allegorical figurative subjects. But political events in India, particularly the destruction of a mosque by Hindu militants in the city of Ayodhya in 1992 and the subsequent attacks on Muslims, spurred her into political action and changed the direction of her work.
She participated in demonstrations protesting both the Ayodhya incident and growing religious nationalism in India. She developed a photo-based feminist art that brought images of ruined architecture, land and the female body together in pointed combinations.
As an artist in residence at Art in General, an alternative space in Manhattan, she created a video-based installation last fall. Titled ”In Between,” the video combined images of Bombay with others of South Asian immigrant life in New York and alternated shots of the artist under treatment in a Manhattan hospital with others of her walking across the Queensboro Bridge wearing the tinkling ankle bells of an Indian classical dancer.
Ms. Hussain showed widely in India and in Europe
She is survived by her husband, Ishaat, and a daughter, Shazmin.
source: http://www.nytimes.com / The New York Times / Home> N.Y./ Region / by Holland Cotter / July 18th, 1999
Kurnool, ANDHRA PRADESH / Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES :
Besides the groom dressed as a prince in a royal entourage, flanked by a column of soldiers and a set designed as a castle, the wedding will bring together celebrities from the UAE, Turkey, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Some Indian ministers are also expected to attend this wedding of the daughter of Nawab Shahtaj Shaji Ul Mulk, founder and chairman of Sharjah-based Mulk Holdings.
A hall at the famous Atlantis hotel is being recreated into a mini palace for the main wedding event which is scheduled for January 4.
The groom, Bilal Muahid Khan, who has a degree in infrastructure engineering is settled in the US. He recently won an award for his design proposal of infrastructure study and solutions for the city of Charlotte. His father, Masood Nawaz Khan, is a cardiologist based in Charlotte.
The Khans also belong to a royal family and are distant relatives of Nawab Shaji Ul Mulk.
Royal entertainment such as dance shows, poetry recitation and fire throwing will be part of the show.
An Indian singer has reportedly been roped in for an unplugged show.
Indian Mela (carnival) will be the theme for the Mehndi ceremony, which is scheduled for January 3.
Performers like magicians, stilt walkers and rice carvers have been roped in for this event.
source: http://www.business-standard.com / Business Standard / Home> PTI Stories> International News /by Press Trust of India / Dubai / August 03rd, 2010
