Progressive Writers' Movement
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Biography
Salma Siddiqui was born in 1931 in
Varanasi
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. Her father Rashid Ahmad Siddiqui was an educationist and professor. She studied Urdu at
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh Muslim University (abbreviated as AMU) is a Public University, public Central University (India), central university in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as the Muhammadan Anglo-Orie ...
Krishan Chander
Krishan Chander (23 November 1914 – 8 March 1977) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels. Some of his works have also been translated in English. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections o ...
in
Nainital
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. They settled in Bombay in 1962.
Family
Kausar Munir
Kausar Munir is an Indian lyricist and screen writer in Bollywood.
Biography
Munir was born and brought up in Bandra, Mumbai. She graduated in English Literature from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.
Munir married actor Nirmal Pandey in 1997 b ...
, a lyricist and poet known for the songs in the Hindi film ''
Ishaqzaade
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'' is Siddiqui's granddaughter. Siddiqui died on 13 February 2017, aged 85.
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''. A television serialisation of the novel, ''Karname Sikandar ke'', was broadcast by
Doordarshan
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in 1991.
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.