The first thing I asked Frank Islam when I met him at his luxury suite in a seven-star hotel in Delhi was about his family's ancestral home in Azamgarh. At the risk of sounding parochial, there was an immediate kinship with the 63-year-old, also a fellow Azmi. He belonged to my neighbouring village in Azamgarh, the constituency of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. But Azamgarh ought to be famous for far bigger reasons - as the land of Shibli Nomani who set up the iconic Shibli … [Read more...]