Salma Siddiqui

Salma Siddiqui (18 June 1931 – 13 February 2017) was an Indian novelist in the Urdu language and a prominent member of the Progressive Writers' Movement.

Biography

Salma Siddiqui was born in 1931 in Varanasi. Her father Rashid Ahmad Siddiqui was an educationist and professor.[1] She studied Urdu at Aligarh Muslim University, earning a master's degree; she later taught at Women's College, Aligarh Muslim University.[2]

Her first marriage ended early,[2] and in 1957, she married Krishan Chander in Nainital. They settled in Bombay in 1962.[1]

Family

Kausar Munir, a lyricist and poet known for the songs in the Hindi film Ishaqzaade is Siddiqui's granddaughter.[3] Siddiqui died on 13 February 2017, aged 85.[2][4]

Literary career

In Siddiqui's father's household in Aligarh was a family retainer named Sikander. He was an idiosyncratic personality, and his stories formed the basis of Siddiqui's novel Sikandarnama.[1] A television serialisation of the novel, Karname Sikandar ke, was broadcast by Doordarshan in 1991.[1]

Other works Siddiqui is known for are Gilhari ki Behen, Bharosa and Mangal Sutra. Several of her completed manuscripts were destroyed in a monsoon shower, following which Siddiqui didn't publish again.[1]

Bibliography
  • Sikandarnama. Delhi: Punjabi Pustak Bhandar.

References
  1. Kartikey Sehgal (24 May 2009). "Playing host to EM Forster and Majrooh Sultanpuri". DNA India. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  2. Rakhshanda Jalil (14 February 2017). "Salma Siddiqui, the Last of the Bombay Progressive Writers, Passes Away". The Wire. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  3. Akshay Manwani (12 April 2016). "Kausar Munir: 'I don't like to be bracketed, in life or in anything else'". The Wire. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  4. "Urdu writer Salma Siddiqui breathes her last". United News of India. 13 February 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
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