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.[citation needed] 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.
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Sudhir / Sept 19 2020
INote: If anyone has the ability and willingness to Collect Old Issues of 'SHAMA' magazine
it will be REKHTA. They have done great job in making available MANTO's short
stories which were written in Urdu into Devnagri script (Prior to that almost all books
featuring his stories in Hindi script were translations
https://www.rekhta.org/manto/?info=stories