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Man who built a shrine in the memory of a cat

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Famous for ‘Imran vs Imran—the Untold Story’, the biography of the Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, 36-year-old, Frank Huzur is today a proud owner of 28 un-protesting felines.

Frank’s affection for the four-legged creatures could be gauged by the fact that he has constructed a shrine in the memory of his departed cat ‘Boca’ at his Lucknow residence in Dilkusha colony.

The structure, ‘Lord Boca’ with a statue of the white cat, on the top-that frank claims is first of its kind in the country- was thrown open for public after a short prayer meeting on Tuesday to bid adieu to the lost friend.

The nine-month-old Persian cat ‘Boca’ died on September 27 last year after a prolonged illness due to abdominal infection.

“Boca was very dear to me like all other cats. He was not just a cat. I shared a divine relationship with him. It was he who taught me to have affection towards all living creatures,” says Frank who divides his time between London, Mumbai-New Delhi and Lahore.

“Boca was father to 20 of my 28 cats through three different wives,” he said.

Frank became infatuated with cats for the first time in May 2012 when a stray feline entered his Mumbai house. The cat, which was later named Milly, made it a permanent shelter. Today his friends can be seen patrolling the Lucknow house and piled up on chairs, tables and book-cases. He has even hired a full-time attendant to take of the creatures, especially when he is not in town.

Frank says that at times his family including his actor-wife Fermina Mukta Singh felt that he found more solace in cats that them. He has named some of them Napolean, Lenin, Tipu, Lohia, Palin to name a few.

“Sometimes my wife thinks that I have understood cat psyche more than her. But now she is used to it,” says Frank who also calls himself a Samajwadi Party (SP) sympathiser.

What is so special that he loves about cats? “These small creatures taught me how not to differentiate on the basis of caste, colour, religion and gender,” he explains.

The author of Imran versus Imran-The Untold Story, Frank is also working on The Socialist: The political journey of socialist ‘patriarch’, Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Born in Buxar, Bihar Frank writes in English and Hindi.

 

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