Salma Siddiqui was an Indian novelist with all her stories in the Urdu language. She also became a prominent member of the Progressive Writers’ movement during her career. She was born in Varanasi on the 18th of June 1931. Siddiqui was surrounded by intellectuals. Her father Rashid Ahmad was an educationist and professor. Siddiqui earned her Bachelor’s degree in the Urdu language at Aligarh Muslim University and also earned her master’s degree at the same university before teaching at the Women’s College of Aligarh Muslim University.
In Siddiqui's father's household in Aligarh was a family retainer named Sikander. The aged man was a distinct personality, and he told his stories every night to Siddiqui those stories formed the basis of Siddiqui's novel, titled Sikandarnama. A television serialization of the novel, Karname Sikandar ke, was broadcast by Doordarshan in 1991. Salma Siddiqui's other works 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.Salma died in Mumbai on the 13th of February 2017, aged 85.
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