12-12-2005, 12:24 AM
<b>Kalka Nabob Aajka Kangal. Kya Huya Tajmahal bananewalon ka </b>
Mughal bahu languishes in a slum
[ Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:39:57 amMUMBAI MIRROR ]
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KOLKATA: A bahu of shahi khandaan now runs a tea stall in Howrah, about 10 km from Kolkata.
Meet Sultana Begum, great grand daughter-in-law of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor of India. Clad in a faded shalwar-kurta, her hair tied in a bun, she counts out the money a customer just paid for a cup of tea at her stall. Barely a stone's throw away, her rundown house in a dingy slum at Foreshore Road in Howrah reeks of poverty.
After the death of her husband Prince Mirza Bedar Bukht, it's a struggle for existence for the mother of five daughters (four of them married) and a son. "Apart from the earnings from the tea stall, I get a monthly political pension of Rs 400," she said.
In a letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, drafted by a lawyer, she has sought "due compensation and provision for a dignified existence". A reply acknowledging the receipt of her letter, also said that it had been "duly recommended to the concerned ministry for appropriate action". That was in May. After that, nothing happened.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/artic...327140.cms
Mughal bahu languishes in a slum
[ Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:39:57 amMUMBAI MIRROR ]
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KOLKATA: A bahu of shahi khandaan now runs a tea stall in Howrah, about 10 km from Kolkata.
Meet Sultana Begum, great grand daughter-in-law of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor of India. Clad in a faded shalwar-kurta, her hair tied in a bun, she counts out the money a customer just paid for a cup of tea at her stall. Barely a stone's throw away, her rundown house in a dingy slum at Foreshore Road in Howrah reeks of poverty.
After the death of her husband Prince Mirza Bedar Bukht, it's a struggle for existence for the mother of five daughters (four of them married) and a son. "Apart from the earnings from the tea stall, I get a monthly political pension of Rs 400," she said.
In a letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, drafted by a lawyer, she has sought "due compensation and provision for a dignified existence". A reply acknowledging the receipt of her letter, also said that it had been "duly recommended to the concerned ministry for appropriate action". That was in May. After that, nothing happened.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/artic...327140.cms