Authors: Ben Ruhe
Date Submitted: February 29, 2004
Article Type: Journal

Iqbal Husain from the Tecino of Switzerland is a regular at major European kite festivals with his dramatic kite trains. He not only collects kites from around the world but also prints and paintings, as well as old Chinese porcelains and Oriental rugs. His small family, he comments, is quite a collection too: three religious (Catholic, Muslim, Hindu), five passports (his two adopted children from the Mother Theresa agency have Indian ones, his wife Italian and Swiss, himself Pakistani and British), seven languages between them (English, Italian, French, German, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi), and different food preferences (Pakistani, Indian, Italian, Swiss: “I’m a vegetarian but the kids prefer salami sandwiches.”)

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