There picture are not of very high quality, but I am very fond of them because they depict a very different side of Mohammad Ali Jinnah from the one that our official discourse allows us to see.
A side that we have often ignored, and sometimes purposely tried to hide. It is a more human side. A less camouflaged side. A side that depicts a ‘normal’ person–flaws and all–rather than a ‘perfect leader.’
It is a side that, in fact, makes Mr. Jinnah more complete than our official depictions would have him be. Without this side, he cannot be complete or be completely understood.
The picture on the top-left was taken in Bombay with his daughter Dina and his dogs; top-right is taken on a vacation in Kashmir (I believe), with Dina and Begum Liaquat Ali Khan; the third picture may well be from the same vacation in Kashmir.
Look around this website… you’ll find several actually.
Also… if you are a researcher… please click on my name above above.
Hey Guys
Nice to see some material on Jinnah here..I am looking for some videos on Jinnah or 14 August 1947, if anyone of you know any link where i can download this vidoes. plz let me know on ma email umerirfan@yahoo.com
Thanks in Advance
Umer I
Altamash … that is a great idea… and funny we run into each other on forums by chance again and again.
How is the family?
His father had a business in Karachi . Mr. Jinnah was born in Kharadar.Karachi .
Jinnah was a Guju guy from Mumbai, he has family and house there. Why Karachi?
Oh very nice .. thanks for sharing all the pictures look really great!
If you read about Quaid e Azam’s life, you get inspired by his staright-ness, the wits, intellect and self esteem …!
And this header looks great too!
Mutiny, why Bombay… why not Karachi?
I was in Bombay last year giving a talk on India-Pakistan at the Taj Hotel in Bombay. Afterwards an elderly Parsee lady came to me and asked me if I knew what was special about the room I had given the talk in (the main hall at the Taj)… I told her I did not know… she told me that the pillars in the room were originally in Rutie Bai’s fathers house (Jinnah’s father-in-law) .. they were quite grand and had later been acquired by the Taj. Turns out that in the period when the relationship between the two was Rocky, Rutie Bai kept a permanent room at the Taj and it was there that she was during part of her ultimate sickness…. or, so I was told.