By Muslim Mirror News,
The majority of Keralites, Hindus or Muslims speak Malayalam, not Urdu or Tamil.
But a Keralite woman Mrs Sulaikha Hussain, wrote many Urdu novels and stories in Urdu which were published by North Indian or Pak Publishers. She died on Tuesday.She is survived by a daughter.
Born in an affluent Katchi Memon family at Mattancherry in 1930, she lost her parents at a very young age and was brought up by her grandfather, Jani Sait, an Urdu poet. She did her primary education at the Mattancherry Asia Bahi madrasa and studied Urdu and Arabic.
With her husband’s patronage she began writing. Sulekha wrote 27 novels and many short stories, all in Urdu. Some of her novels, Rah Akeli, Dishvar Huva Jeena, Ek Khyab Hakhikhath, andMarla he Kali were widely read in several North Indian cities such as Lucknow, Allahabad, New Delhi and Pakistan. Her most famous novel, Tharikhion Ke Baad, was translated into Malayalam by K. Ravi Varma in the 1980s.
Considering her contributions to Urdu literature, she was nominated to the committee awarding fellowships in Urdu language by the Union Cultural Affairs Ministry in 2012
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