Mumbai: As part of its ongoing development, the work-in-progress museum inside Terminal 2 of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) will soon feature minarets, paintings and embroidery done by women from Mijwan village in Uttar Pradesh, the birthplace of well-known poet Kaifi Azmi. These women are part of an NGO founded by Azmi in 1993 to educate rural women and help in making them self-reliant.
After getting a paralytic stroke which rendered his left leg and left arm incapacitated, Azmi, who had penned some of the best-known poems in contemporary Indian history, gave up the comforts of Mumbai and settled in Mijwan, a village frozen in time. Today Mijwan is a model village with schools, college and vocational centres providing education and training to hundreds of women from the area.
"Girls from Mijwan used to be married off as early as twelve years of age! It was commonplace to see them in school with the trademark sindoor in their hair. Today these girls have different aspirations," says Kaifi's daughter, actress Shabana Azmi, on the NGO's web page.
27/07/15 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
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After getting a paralytic stroke which rendered his left leg and left arm incapacitated, Azmi, who had penned some of the best-known poems in contemporary Indian history, gave up the comforts of Mumbai and settled in Mijwan, a village frozen in time. Today Mijwan is a model village with schools, college and vocational centres providing education and training to hundreds of women from the area.
"Girls from Mijwan used to be married off as early as twelve years of age! It was commonplace to see them in school with the trademark sindoor in their hair. Today these girls have different aspirations," says Kaifi's daughter, actress Shabana Azmi, on the NGO's web page.
27/07/15 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
