The King Takes His Queen On Safari
AFRICAN LIFE – AUGUST 1958 51
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
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