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Mumbai: Museum coming up at Terminal T2 to feature minarets, paintings, and embroidered fabric

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.

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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.

Azmi was an active member of the Progressive Writers Association (PWA). Azmi's real name was Athar Husain Rizvi. Held in high esteem for his Urdu poems, lyrics and his left-leaning sensibilities, Azmi produced noted film songs for films such as Shama, Kaagaz Ke Phool, Shola Aur Shabnam, Anupama, Aakhri Khat, Haqeeqat, Hanste Zakhm, and Arth. Apart from writing songs, he also scripted Chetan Anand's film Heer Ranjha.

According to sources, the contribution of the women from Mijwan will be showcased at the baggage claim area of T2, which has been christened 'Baggage Acclaimed' area by chief curator Rajeev Sethi. The art work will revolve around the work by Delhi based painter Baaraan Ijlal who is known for using narrative style with influences from the tradition of 'dastans' and epics to music and contemporary literature.

According to the airport insiders, the art work engages with celebrates the yarn and the embroidery. "My project titled 'Silent Minarets And Whispering Winds', part of 'Baggage Acclaimed', goes a step further: it celebrates the resilience of an embroiderer," states Ijlal on her web page.

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