Sadia Dehlvi

Sadia Dehlvi is a journalist, writer, social activist and columnist of Hindustan Times. She is known for television serials- Amma and Family (1995) and Zindagi Kitni Khoobsurat Hai (2001). She also produced a television show- Not a Nice man to Know(1998) with Khushwant Singh. She was born and brought up in Delhi in 1957. Her father is Yunus Dehlvi, who lived in Sharma Ghar on Sardar Patel, Delhi. It was one of the oldest media houses of Delhi which published 'Sharma', a literary magazine and film Urdu monthly, which was closed in 1987. She is a close friend of author Khushwant Singh, who dedicated his book "Not a Nice man to Know" to her. She married Reza Pervaiz (Pakistani citizen) in 1990 and lived in Karachi for some time, where the couple had a son. She is a very religious person who regularly visits and prays at Sufi Shrines.

She is an ardent follower of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi and Khwaja Gharib Nawaz of Ajmer. For over thirty years Sadia Dehlvi has involved in various social causes and issues related to women, culture, heritage and Muslim communities. Now she lives with her son in New Delhi. She has a successful career as a writer and journalist. "Sufism: The Heart of Islam", a book based on Sufism, which was then published by HarperCollins Publishers in April 2009 and her second book, "The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi", also published by the same publisher in February 2012. Dehlvi’s all dated write-ups and interviews converged on topics that highlighted the demeaning of the Muslim image and stood against the Islam’s political outlook.

Dehlvi came to limelight for her veteran actress Zohra Sehgal starrer television series "Amma and Family" which demeaned the conventional image of a Muslim family.