{"id":12655,"date":"2023-12-28T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=12655"},"modified":"2023-12-28T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:46:36","slug":"the-first-auto-biography-of-arif-rahman-chughtai-living-episodes-of-first-25-years-in-i-sing-my-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=12655","title":{"rendered":"THE FIRST AUTO BIOGRAPHY OF ARIF RAHMAN CHUGHTAI; LIVING EPISODES OF FIRST 25 YEARS IN “I SING MY SONG!”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THE FIRST AUTO BIOGRAPHY OF ARIF RAHMAN CHUGHTAI;
LIVING EPISODES OF FIRST 25 YEARS IN “I SING MY SONG!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have written things all my life. Serious prose, romantic poetry and incidents concerning my life. But I restrained myself\/. In the world I lived in, humility was the key to life. A long time back someone told me about the saying “Pidray man Sultan Bhoot”. It reflects the philosophy to speak of yourself not speak of your ancestors being Sultan some day. I stuck to it. But this humility drive you in a corner. My father Abdur Rahman Chughtai artist was with Dr Allama Iqbal for nearly twenty years, and except for a few letters and endorsements, there is not a single photograph of them together. All the more sad when Chughtai Sahib actually photographed Dr Iqbal many times, even coloured his black and white photographs with aero spray in colour. The obsequious get their way by putting their face in front of the cameras all the time, the dignified lose history in their humility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Auto biography front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Auto biography back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One year old ARC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Baby in growth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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ARC School graduation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sacred Heart School Annual Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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St Anthony High School 1965<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Benjamin H Oehlert buys Amal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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University Farewell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I thought my life has always been private. We never even mentioned our father in school, college or university. We were allergic in being caught having to say things like that. We also knew the issues will be generated as people will request meetings and my father would deny same. And we will be red faced in the end. So my life remained private, and famous for being a shy person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was high time I wrote something about myself. This PART ONE is about the first twenty five years of my life. Next year it would be the next fifty years of my life. Before I become history, I must write my history myself. And present photographs never seen before outside the house. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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