Hannah Chowdhry

A forgotten history: Though the book above is known by Redbridge Museum they were unaware of the mention of Ilford! Sometime in the 1920's, a struggling author, named Eric Arthur Blair wrote an account of his near homelessness in France and experience of washing dishes in Paris' restaurants. He later coupled the publication with a further description of a period of time he spent homeless in London. He used artistic licence to create the impression he was actually homeless, and not simply living as a vagrant for his research. His publication met with rave reviews and 55,000 copies of  'Down and Out in Paris and London' were eventually printed by penguin books in 1940.  Read more  (here) The author many years later became ranked as Britain's second most important authors since 1945, under his pseudonym George Orwell (which many of you will recognise). Quite interestingly, his article mentioned the work of the Salvation Army and other church establis...

The Asianlite also covered her recent interview  (here) I was invited to attend Asia Bibi's first ever press conference which was primarily organised for the purposes of promoting her new book but questions within the conference seemed to be about anything but the publication, as amassed reporters competed with one another to get the chance to question her on aspects of her life, pre, during and post her conviction for blasphemy. Though arguably a lot of this information is exactly what her publication is set to share with the masses. Hannah takes notes at press conference This video was filmed by BBC World Service after the press conference. I have been volunteering with the British Asian Christian Association for over 4 years and represented our group at the conference, where the few other charities that had helped Asia Bibi were present too.  I was slightly taken aback by the pronouncement that Asia Bibi's current asylum in Canada expires at the end of December. Such a s...