THE VIRUS LEFT A BENGALI CAREER MINDED HEDGE FUND MANAGER ISOLATED IN HIS HOME AND UNEMPLOYED KAMAL HUSSAIN’S EARLY LIFE Kamal was born at Mile End Hospital in the early 1970 near Brick Lane, Tower Hamlets. He grew up with 5 siblings. He went to Ben Johnson Primary School and subsequently to Stepney Green Secondary School. At the time, there were not many Bengali children studying with in these schools. He went to Greenwich University and studied business management because he was ambitious. He says: 'The kids did not have any guidance at the time. Also, it's not only the Bengalis, you also had the white East End Community... Before the 1970s and 1980s, you had a very hierarchical society where the white working class and Irish were lumped together in the East End. When I was growing up there was racial tension. I still remember when the British National Party had won the election in the Isle of Dogs.’ Culturally growing up in East London, he was torn between three differe
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