Quite often when we talk about the contributions the Asian community have made to Bradford, we will talk about the men who worked in the textile mills, like my father who came in 1958. We forget the wives who joined them, like my mother, Fahmeeda Malik who left her home in Lahore in 1966. She, like so many of them, were home makers. They believed this was their only duty, to serve their husbands, children and other family members. They felt extreme loneliness and longed for their loved ones back home. Imagine living in a completely alien environment.