Books
Capricorn
Though I love my friends and family, I’m a bit of a loner. I love watching movies alone, often one per day. I’m basically lucky.
If something bad happens to any of my loved ones.
My son Mikhail has grown up to be a happy individual despite having cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
Birth of my daughter, Soraya.
Losing Mikhail’s identical twin brother, my son Sarfaraz.
My father, Kabir. He’s technically dead, but he lives in my heart.
Caesar in Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series.
Macbeth
Colleen McCullough, Shakespeare, Nabokov, Khaled Hosseini, James Hadley Chase, Rumi, Richard Dawkins, Tagore, Qurratulain Hyder, Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chughtai, Dickens, Hardy, Christie, Maugham, Steinbeck.
Diwan e Ghalib, Mahabharat, Macbeth, Masters of Rome series, Lolita
Diwan e Ghalib
Sound of Music, Apu Trilogy, Mughal e Azam, The Bridges of Madison County, The Lives of Others
he power to banish poverty from the world, especially India.
She was fun to be around.
Childhood – growing up with my grandson Kaveer in Windsor, Adolescent – enjoying the poetry of Mirza Ghalib as they were recited by him, Adult – watching Shakespearean plays as they were being written and performed, Silver Years – at home in Kolkata in the present.
To write and think like Mirza Ghalib.
Diwan e Ghalib
Early mornings, in my room, in bed, on my laptop.
Silence
What fun!
Must write on my own laptop.
Self help books
Begin with the end in mind.
Almas Kabir Hussain was born into an eccentric 43-member Bengali Muslim joint family. She can trace her ancestry to the Nawab of Jalpaiguri on her paternal side and the Nawab of Simri Bakhtiarpur on her maternal side. Hussain is the fifth daughter in a close-knit nuclear family of five girls headed by her feminist Abbu, G. Kabir.
She studied at Loreto House and Loreto College, Kolkata and graduated with a BA (English Honours). Widely travelled, she is fascinated by world literature. She read Creative Writing at Oxford University. For most of her professional life, Hussain worked as an advertising Copy Writer and Graphic Designer. She has been the proprietor of two advertising agencies, Via and Diva. Mesmerised by stories since childhood, she is a voracious reader and typically watches at least one film a day. Due to the nature of her husband’s transferable job, Hussain has lived in many cities all over the world including Kochi, Bangalore, Jamshedpur, Dhaka, London, Chennai and Teheran, in roughly that order.
She currently resides in Kolkata with her husband, Manzer Hussain, and their son, Mikhail. Her daughter, Soraya, lives in London with her husband, Amit, and their son, Kaveer.
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