Sadia Dehlvi

Sadia Dehlvi (1957 – 5 August 2020) was a Delhi-based activist, writer and a columnist with the daily newspaper, the Hindustan Times, and frequently published in Frontline and Urdu, Hindi and English newspapers and magazines.[2] She was a devotee of Khwaja Gharib Nawaz of Ajmer and Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. She criticised 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, a veteran stage actor.

Sadia Dehlvi
Born1957
Delhi
Died5 August 2020(2020-08-05) (aged 62–63)
NationalityIndian
Other namesSadia Sayyed Karamat Ali [1]
Occupationactivist, columnist and writer

Biography

Sadia Dehlvi was born in Delhi in 1957. Her grandfather was Yusuf Dehlvi and father is Yunus Dehlvi who lived in Shama Ghar on Sardar Patel Road, in New Delhi where she was born. The one-time cultural hub of Delhi, today it houses Bahujan Samaj Party headquarters, (since 2002).[3][4]

In April 2009 Dehlvi published a book on Sufism entitled Sufism: The heart of Islam published by HarperCollins Publishers, India.[5] 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 1987.[6]

Dehlvi was a close friend and confidante of the late author Khushwant Singh. Singh's book Not a Nice Man to Know was dedicated to her. He wrote, "To Sadia Dehlvi, who gave me more affection and notoriety than I deserve." Singh's book, Men and Women in my Life includes an entire chapter on her and the cover has her photo. In 1998, Dehlvi produced a television show, Not a Nice man to Know with Khushwant Singh interviewing women from various fields.

Dehlvi won acclaim for her television series starring the veteran actress Zohra Sehgal Amma and Family. Dehlvi co-produced and scripted the series, also playing one of the main roles.

Dehlvi died on 5 August 2020. [7]

Personal life

She married a Pakistani, Reza Pervaiz, in 1990. She then stayed in Karachi, where the couple had a son, Armaan in 1992.[8][9] This marriage lasted for 12 years but ended in a divorce when Pervaiz emailed her "Talaq" 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. [1]

Sufism

Dehlvi wrote Sufism: The Heart of Islam in which she details Islam's Sufi traditions and the importance of the Sufi message of love, tolerance and brotherhood. [10][11]

Author
  • Sufism, The Heart of Islam, Harpercollins, 2009. ISBN 81-7223-797-9.[12]
  • "Dilli ka Dastarkhwan" – chapter in City Improbable : An Anthology of Writings on Delhi/edited by Khushwant Singh. New Delhi, Viking, 2001, xv, 286 p., $22. ISBN 0-670-91235-2.[13]
  • Sadia Dehlvi (2012). The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi. Harper Collins. ISBN 93-5029-095-2.

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

Further reading

References
  1. 'Divorce by Email- Sadia Dehalvi shares her experience of ending a marriage online' at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 December 2007)
  2. Profile Doha Network.
  3. Maya’s elephant house rises in the rubble of Delhi’s cultural hub The Indian Express, 1 May 2009.
  4. ""Delhi's Muslim Culture is Dying" - Interview with Sadia Dehlvi". the delhiwalla.blogspot.ca. The Delhi Walla. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  5. "Sadia Dehlvi". wisemuslimwomen.org. WISE. Archived from the original on 14 September 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  6. Kumar, Surendra; Pradeep Kumar Kapur (2008). India of My Dreams. Academic Foundation. p. Page 213. ISBN 81-7188-689-2. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
  7. "Eminent author and food connoisseur Sadia Dehlvi passes away - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  8. Delhi’s Able Daughter: Sadia Dehlvi Archived 5 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine by Raza Rumi. 24 February 2007.
  9. ‘I am not looking for social approval’ The Indian Express, 10 May 2002.
  10. http://twocircles.net/2010sep07/book_review_sufism_heart_islam.html#.VdhJzfmqqko
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 September 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. Sufism...
  13. Vedambooks
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