A nostalgic moment awaited GHMC zonal commissioner Musharraf Ali Faruqui on a mundane Wednesday, as he ran into his childhood mentor unexpectedly.
Mr. Faruqui was at Victory Playground of Chaderghat for inaugurating the GHMC special summer coaching camp, when Kaleem Ahmed, his one-time cricket coach waited in a queue to meet him. It was a pleasant surprise for the young IAS officer to find his coach out of nowhere. He reacted by hugging him affectionately.
“I was in transition from my Class VII to VIII in 2001-02, when I decided that I was going for cricket training that year in GHMC summer coaching camp. That’s where I met Mr. Ahmed,” Mr. Faruqui recollected.
As a young boy, Mr. Faruqui apparently explored various sports every year, before settling with tennis. Mr. Ahmed played Ranji matches and trained many first-class cricketers, Mr. Faruqui said. “There are hardly any playgrounds for children these days. The summer coaching camps were what I looked forward to eagerly,” said Mr. Faruqui, who stayed at Gun Foundry those days.
He shared a picture of his warm hug with the coach on his Twitter account along with other photos of the camp, which attracted much attention.