MEDIA RELEASE
Ike Naqvi launches Safarnama -his autobiography- at Fullers, Monday, May 10 at 6pm
When Ike Naqvi was a young boy in small town India a fortune teller told him that he would one day find himself on a small cold island a long way from home.
Years later he ended up in Tasmania, a small island a long way from home.
He is launching the book of his life; Safarnama, his ‘life journey’ at Fullers Bookshop on Monday, May 10th at 6pm. All proceeds from the sale of the book will go to charity.
Ike Naqvi arrived in Tasmania in 1960 to study Geology has gone on to become a community and business leader and received an Order of Australia.
He fathered a family of three with his Tasmanian born wife, Jane, and he now divides his time between Europe, where his children and grandchildren live and his home in Tinderbox.
Ike was the founder of the Indian Cultural Society in 1972 and its first President. He was also a founding member of the Migrant Resource Centre, Ethnic Communities Council and the Multicultural Education Committee, as well as a member of the Australian Ethnic Affairs Committee.
The story of Safarnama is written from the letters he wrote to his mother in Urdu, on thin light blue aerogrammes and contains both the Urdu and the English.
Ike will be introduced by the youngest of his three children, Yasmin, who is a lawyer working in the Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
All are welcome to attend this free event.
Refreshments will be provided.
Fullers
