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Royal baby footman returns to India after visa expires . - chairman - 07-31-2013
The 25-year-old, raised in a Kolkata slum, played a starring role in the royal birth when he helped the Queen's press secretary, Ailsa Anderson, post the official bulletin on an ornate easel in the palace forecourt on Monday last week, announcing the Duchess of Cambridge had given birth to a 8lbs 6oz boy.
The hospitality management graduate, who landed the job after finishing his studies at Napier University in Edinburgh, was forced to leave the palace at the end of last week. He had been granted a post-study work visa which expired at the end of July, though he was reportedly eager to stay in the UK. He has now left Britain, and is believed to have returned to Kolkata where his family live.
Buckingham Palace said it did not comment on the Queen's staff, and the Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases.
Azim's journey from a modest two-roomed abode to the palace gates has gained wide circulation in India. He was born in a slum apartment in the backstreets of Kolkata, the son of Mohammed Rahim, 52, a welder, and Mumtaz Begum, 41, and raised in the cramped dwelling which is still shared by nine members of his extended family, including his two brothers.
In an interview at the weekend his brother, Mazhar, 20, told the Mail on Sunday they were an "economically challenged" family, but his father had borrowed money to give his children a good education.
After struggling at public school, Azim was taken in by the charitable St Mary's orphanage and day school, run by the Irish Congregation of Christian Brothers, which helps the underprivileged.
The orphanage later sponsored him to go to the International Institute of Hotel Management College (IIHM) in Kolkata in 2008. After two years there the orphanage raised the money for him to complete his degree at Napier.
He graduated in June 2011, and joined Buckingham Palace after applying for a job as junior footman the following year. At the time he said: "If I hadn't gone to St Mary's I would be working somewhere on the streets of Kolkata. It would have been very difficult to get a job in India because unless you have a good degree you will not get a good job and a good salary."
Sanjukta Bose, director of the IIHM, told The Hindu he was a "a nice, reserved polite and quiet student".
She said: "It was a moment not of surprise but of pride when I read about the footman of Buckingham Palace who was involved in the formal proclamation of the royal baby. I knew instantly it was our Badar Azim that everyone was talking about".
A post-study working visa used to allow those who came to Britain to study to remain for a maximum of two years to work in the UK, but the scheme was closed down in April last year and students could no longer apply from April 2012.
This article originally appeared on guardian.co.uk
Re: Royal baby footman returns to India after visa expires . - chairman - 07-31-2013
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Re: Royal baby footman returns to India after visa expires . - ketchim - 07-31-2013
[quote author=The Chairman link=topic=82282.msg514252#msg514252 date=1375290143]
"If I hadn't gone to St Mary's I would be working somewhere on the streets of Kolkata.
It would have been very difficult to get a job in India ......
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Sounds like Fogarty's , Bettencourts and Mekdeci :
with Hindus converts to Christianity in Guyana.
To get a job as a store clerk
~ The more things change , the more they remain the same ~ :-[
Re: Royal baby footman returns to India after visa expires . - Kwami - 07-31-2013
He can always go back to India and be a footman for Sonia Gandhi.
You are a college grad for Christ sake and you want to be a foot man for the symbol of 450 years of your oppression ?
Re: Royal baby footman returns to India after visa expires . - ketchim - 07-31-2013
Oye , you couldda do better in Guyana :
why you here ??
De chap converted and was probably touch up by dem Irish brothers.
Fatwa ....if he returns :
think b4 U post
Re: Royal baby footman returns to India after visa expires . - Kwami - 07-31-2013
[quote author=ketchim link=topic=82282.msg514261#msg514261 date=1375291811]
Oye , you couldda do better in Guyana :
why you here ??
De chap converted and was probably touch up by dem Irish brothers.
Fatwa ....if he returns :
think b4 U post
[/quote]Why I am here? They were in my country for 450 years and I am here less than forty I still got another 400more years to go
Re: Royal baby footman returns to India after visa expires . - ketchim - 07-31-2013
[quote author=The Chairman link=topic=82282.msg514252#msg514252 date=1375290143]
After struggling at public school, Azim was taken in by the charitable St Mary's orphanage
[/quote]
See how these Pimps foist upon the Vulnerable ?
Re: Royal baby footman returns to India after visa expires . - Kwami - 07-31-2013
[quote author=ketchim link=topic=82282.msg514279#msg514279 date=1375294001]
See how these Pimps foist upon the Vulnerable ?
[/quote] These westerners supposedly charitable goes to India to prey and pray on the destitute and in the meantime their own country propagate faggotry , in a state of moral decay and decline but they want to save poor people in the thirld world
Re: Royal baby footman returns to India after visa expires . - Snoopster - 07-31-2013
[quote author=Kwami link=topic=82282.msg514260#msg514260 date=1375291684]
He can always go back to India and be a footman for Sonia Gandhi.
You are a college grad for Christ sake and you want to be a foot man for the symbol of 450 years of your oppression ?
[/quote]
Couldn't have said it any better. Servile mentality.
Re: Royal baby footman returns to India after visa expires . - ketchim - 08-15-2013
Recently, like many other journalists in Calcutta, I was trying to find the Queen's former footman,
Badar Azim, who returned to India when his UK visa expired.
British papers had written about his journey to Buckingham Palace from the "slums of Calcutta"
... but this did not go down well with his family. :-[