The King Takes His Queen On Safari
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A King Takes His Queen on Safari…
Exclusive Pictures by ALLEN BENDIG
Above — Both sitting trium-phantly on the King's rhino trophy
NEPAL – picturesque Himalayan mountain country of 54,000 square miles and home of the valiant Gurkhas – has been a closed book for centuries.Now the country is being opened up by an Indian Army built road.
The King – a decendent of one of the Rajput clans who migrated from India when Muslims came – is the only surviving representative of Hindu Royalty.
His Coronation was performed with great pomp and show – strictly according to Hindu scriptures.
Nepal was the birthplace of the founder of the Buddhist religion.
IT WAS a “nothing spared” safari ior King Mahendra of Nepal and his Queen when they came to East Africa. click to read the Full Article
African Safari
By Omar Kureishi
IN 1956 the Cricket Writers Club toured what was then called East Africa. I do not want to write about that tour but about some of the characters who were on that tour. Hamid Jalal was the manager and he deserves a column by itself. Kardar was the captain and I have already written about him. About our hosts, I best remember the brothers, Bashir and Iqbal Mauladad. Bashir was very prim and proper, the Rotary Club type and snobbish in an upper middle-class way, yet he was an impeccable host.
Iqbal or Bali as he was better known was roly-poly, portly rather than fat. He was a white hunter and took tourists on safaris to shoot lions and rhinos. He was also into motor-racing driver. He had been a consultant to MGM when they were shooting films in East Africa and claimed to have known Ava Gardner. Years later I met Ava Gardner in Paris and asked if she recalled Bali? Click to read the Full Article
MOHAMED IQBAL MAULADAD, an Asian Professional Hunter.
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Safari Profile
ASIAN HUNTER
We welcome to our series MOHAMED IQBAL MAULADAD,
an Asian Professional Hunter, who this month went out with the
King and Queen of Nepal on their East African Safari.
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OHAMED IQBAL MAULADAD doesn’t have to hunt; he is a man of means . . . he does it because, like so many more, he loves the life.
A British Pakistani, born in Nairobi 32 years ago, he is the son of the late Mr. Mauladad, who was a well-known building contractor.
You can’t mistake Mohamed Iqbal; once seen never forgotten. Any man 6′ 1″ in his socks, and weighing 2501b. deserves the soubriquet, Hefty”. He has black hair, almost black eyes, and a near R.A.F.-type moustache.
At ten, he got used to a .22 on target and birds, and more than once got ‘em on the wing — which is not bad going for a rifle. He started hunting as a sportsman 16 years ago.
Starting with buffalo, he went after all the other big and dangerous game. He still likes a buffalo hunt “as they give you a run for your money”. In 1952, he turned Professional Hunter.
He was, in fact, the first Asian to apply for membership of the East African Professional Hunters’ Association, and is hoping to be elected to that august body in the near future.
There are only three Asian Professional Hunters: Mohamed Iqbal, S. I. Hassan of African Hunting Safaris, Mombasa, and Wali Mohamed of Nairobi.
Halle Studio- Bali Mauladad
Irrespective of any leanings Mohamed may have had towards his present vocation, Papa Mauladad made him learn the
business of building and contracting when he left the Government Indian High School, now called the Duke of Gloucester’s. So when not hunting, he has plenty to interest him in the family business.
He has two main hobbies: Motor Racing for which he is very well known, he has won 21 cups, and Animal Photography. His favorite cameras are a 35 mm Contax (still) and a Pallard Bolex (Cine).
Nasty leopard
Subjects he concentrates on photographing are elephant, lion and rhinoceros; he has most trouble with the buffalo due to their wonderful eyesight and their exceptionally keen hearing and smell.
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