Fatima Zakaria
Fatima Zakaria | |
|---|---|
| Children | 4, includingFareed Zakaria |
| Awards | Padma Shri |
Fatima Zakaria(17 February 1936 – 6 April 2021) used to be the editor of theMumbaiTimes, and became the Sunday editor ofThe Times of India.[1]Zakaria is also the editor of theTajmagazine of theTaj Hotels.[2]Her office is in theTaj Mahal HotelinMumbai.
Family
[change|change source]She is the second widow ofRafiq Zakaria,who was an Indian politician and Islamic religious cleric.[3]
Fatima Zakaria is the step-mother of 2 children. The eldest, Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, is an art historian and writer, living in Mumbai. The second is Mansoor Zakaria. Her full son Arshad Zakaria[4]runs ahedge fund.Her youngest full sonFareed Zakariais an editor of Newsweek, and host ofFareed Zakaria GPSonCNN.
Career
[change|change source]Rafiq Zakaria establishedThe Maulana Azad Education Trustin the historic city ofAurangabadMaharashtraIndia. It was his Assembly Constituency from which he got elected a few times. He served as a Minister in the State cabinet. Fatima transformed educational institutions in Aurangabad to such an extent that they can be compared with the best centres of learning in Asia.
Zakaria joined theTaj Group of Hotelsto establish the hotel, The Taj Residency, on the campus ofThe Maulana Azad Education Trustin Aurangabad. She became editor of the coffee table magazineTaj.[2]She introduced a Hotel Management Course in alliance with a British University. She is on the board of the Indian Institute of Hotel Management Aurangabad[5]
Zakaria, is regarded as a secularist, however she took special care to cater to the educational needs of the Muslims.
The awardPadma Shriwas conferred on her by theGovernment of Indiain 2006.[6]
Zakaria died fromCOVID-19at the Kamalnayan Bajaj Hospital in Aurangabad on 6 April 2021.[7]
References
[change|change source]- ↑"Siblings - Achievers, not Inheritors".the-south-asian. February 2003.
- ↑2.02.1"The new Taj".Arlington, VA: Tata Sons Ltd. 12 November 2001. Archived fromthe originalon 16 July 2011.Retrieved14 February2011.
- ↑"Dr. Rafiq Zakaria remembered".Two Circles. 16 July 2010.
- ↑"Arshad Zakaria appointed Merrill Lynch co-president".RediffIndia Limited. 8 October 2001.Retrieved14 February2011.
- ↑"Board".Indian Institute of Hotel Management, Aurangabad. Archived fromthe originalon 24 October 2017.Retrieved6 April2021.
- ↑"Padma Awards Directory (1954-2009)"(PDF).Ministry of Home Affairs.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 10 May 2013.
- ↑Desk, The Cognate News (6 April 2021)."Veteran Journalist, Fareed Zakaria's Mother, Padma Shri Fatima Zakaria Dies Aged 85".The Cognate.Retrieved13 December2023.
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