Habib Tanvir: Memoirs

Translator’s Acknowledgements A Note on the Translation Introduction By Way of Acknowledgements and towards a Preamble My Father My Mother and My Sisters The Red-Bearded Grandfather Our Dark Uncle My Brother-in-Law Kali Bari Theatre Master Saheb in Bilaspur Khoba The Oil-Hawking Granny Birth Certificate The Uncle with the Strick My Elder Brother My Brother-in-Law Hafeez Madani and I The Servants Maulvi Yasin’s Madrasa Early Loves Sports and Games Vahshi’s Poetry Majeed Bhaiyya The Trachers of Laurie School Deaths The Mashairas Raipur Old Films Film Acting Film Music Professors of Morris College Ragging Break That Glass Sins Not Committed Would I Had Given Up Other Sins Tarabai Nagpur Aligarh Hyderabad The Wise Camel Nasik, 1945 Bombay Bukhari Saheb Manzar Begum Nagpur in Chicago Ballroom Dancing Kamla Fashion 1946 Andheri My Grandmother’s Death and Munni My Father’s Will Yash Pal Raza Ali