About Helene Dancer

Vitruvian Man

When he was 7 or 8 years old, Jawaid Luqmani cycled home on his yellow Chopper to find a policeman at the front door who wanted to search the house for illegal immigrants. This being north London’s Finchley in the early 1970s, his Indian family was most certainly a minority. Then he watched as his brother, 18 at the time, answered the door and laughed at the policeman. “Where’s your warrant, sonny?” his brother asked. “It seemed just extraordinary,” recalls Luqmani, now 48 and an …