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Memoir In Memoir

The remarkable life of the sprightly actress from an elite Muslim family of Aligarh who briefly worked in Indian films before moving to Karachi to become a celebrated TV actress.

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Memoir In Memoir
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Jeevan Parbat
Bhabhi
Naya Sansar

Fascinating though her own life is, you get a memoir within a memoir. Her father, a Hindu by birth and from Kashmir, was fascinated by Islam and drawn to the progressive ideas of Sir Syed Ahmed, founder of Aligarh Muslim University. Thakur Das became Shaikh Abdullah. And with wife Waheed Jahan Begum, founded Aligarh Women’s College.

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