'Feroz brought a horse into class'

BANGALORE: "I just love to see themrun. Horses are part of me," Feroz Khan used to say. Wing Commander N Joseph,his junior in school, endorses this.Says Joseph: "He had a fondnessfor horses. He would bring some of the carriage horses to school and ride themaround the ground. Those days carriage were popular in Bangalore as there wereno taxis or autos. "There was a man called Domingo near what is now Coles Park.Feroz would hijack some of his horses, and ride them around the school," Josephrecalls."He once brought a horse right into class. He had somealtercations with the maths teachers. After that incident, he moved on toBaldwin's."Feroz's father, Hazrat Ali, was Joseph's Urdu teacher. "Iremember him coming by cycle to school with a Turkish head cap withtassles."Another schoolmate, T Kamruddin, recalls the ninth-standarddays at St Germain. "Feroz was built big and would be head and shoulders aboveus. He was a very good athlete and sprinter. "Everybody would hang around himduring the break. He would sit on somebody's shoulders and play. There wassomething about him that everyone liked. He was handsome."He wasfrom a well-connected family. But he didn't show off," Kamruddin recalls. Ferozeused to live in Shivajinagar before moving to Lloyd's Road in Frazer Town. "Heused to live in one of the old bungalows on that road." The bungalow has madeway for an apartment complex.