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• Shrabani Basu leads project for Noor Inayat Khan statue

  Congratulations to Shrabani Basu who has led a successful campaign to have the war time courage of Noor Inayat Khan recognised with a statue in London. Shrabani's campaign has the backing of 34 MPs and prominent British Asians, including human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti and film director Gurinder Chadha. Permission has been granted to site the sculpture on land owned by the University of London in Gordon Square, close to the Bloomsbury house where Noor lived as a child in 1914. It will be the first memorial in Britain to either a Muslim or an Asian woman. Noor was a true heroine of the Second World War, working as an agent for the SOE in occupied France. She was one of only three women in the SOE to be awarded the George Cross. Her story is told in Shrabani's wonderful biography Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan. Shrabani said: "I feel it is very important that what she did should not be allowed to fade from memory, particularly living in the times that we do. Here was a young Muslim woman who gave her life for this country and for the fight against those who wanted to destroy the Jewish race. She was an icon for the bond that exists between Britain and India but also between people who fought for what they believed to be right." For more information, follow the link below.

  http://independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/honoured-at-last-the-indian-hero…