Delhi
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-based activist, writer and a columnist with the daily newspaper, the ''
Hindustan Times
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It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyall ...
'', and frequently published in ''
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* ''Front Lines'' (novel), young adult historical novel by American author Michael Grant
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and
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newspapers and magazines. She was a devotee of
Khwaja Gharib Nawaz
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of
Ajmer
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and Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. She criticized radical interpretations of Islam and called for a pluralistic understanding of Islam. She produced and scripted documentaries and television programs, including ''Amma and Family'' (1995), starring
Zohra Sehgal
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, a veteran stage actor.
Biography
Sadia Dehlvi was born in Delhi in 1957 into the Punjabi Saudagaran community. Her grandfather, Yusuf Dehlvi, and her father, Yunus Dehlvi, lived in Shama Kothi on Sardar Patel Road, in New Delhi where she was born. The one-time cultural hub of Delhi, today it houses
Bahujan Samaj Party
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headquarters, (since 2002).
In April 2009 Dehlvi published a book on Sufism entitled ''Sufism: The heart of Islam'' published by HarperCollins Publishers, India. Her second book, ''The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi'', detailing Delhi's Sufi history was also published by HarperCollins, India and released in February 2012.
She edited ''Bano'' an Urdu women's journal for the Shama Group, which published '' Shama'' an Urdu literary and film monthly. It eventually closed in 1999.
Dehlvi died on 5 August 2020.
Personal life
She married a Pakistani, Reza Pervaiz, in 1990. She then stayed in
Karachi
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, where the couple had a son, Armaan in 1992.‘I am not looking for social approval’ ''
The Indian Express
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'', 10 May 2002. This marriage lasted for 12 years but ended in a divorce when Pervaiz emailed her "
Talaq
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" three times on 8 April 2012. She later married 45-year-old Sayyed Karamat Ali, whom she met at Hazrat Shah Farhad, a Sufi shrine in Delhi, which she had been visiting for the last 20 years, and proudly referred to herself as Sadia Sayyed Karamat Ali.
Sufism
Dehlvi wrote ''Sufism: The Heart of Islam'' in which she details Islam's Sufi traditions and the importance of what she sees as the Sufi message of love, tolerance and brotherhood.
Author
* ''Sufism, The Heart of Islam'',
Harpercollins
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, 2009. .
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Works
As Actress:
* ''Zindagi Kitni Khoobsoorat Hai'' (2001) TV series
* ''Amma and Family'' (1995) TV series
Producer:
* ''Not a Nice Man to Know'' (1998) TV series (associate producer)
Writer:
* ''Amma and Family'' (1995) TV series
Hindustan Times
''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia.
It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyall ...