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Wajida Tabassum (16 March 1935–7 December 2011) lived in the princely state of Hyderabad Deccan, located in south-central India, and was a writer of fiction, verses and songs in Urdu. One of the foremost women writers in the language, she was known for her audacious and semi-erotic stories and her formidable power of storytelling. Her bold writing, through which she took on societal taboos, was seen as immoral and scandalous and faced many a public protest. Otherwise a woman who lived in purdah, Tabassum chose to write about strong and uncomfortable themes that made her ‘unpopular’ with the Indian society of the mid-1900s. During the 1960s and 1970s, her stories were published in India in many magazines. Her books include Teh Khana, Kaise Samjhaoon , Phul Khilne Do , Zakhm-e-Dil Aur Mahak Aur Mahak, and Zan, Zar, Zameen, which was her last work, published in 1989. Her story titled ‘Utran’ (Cast-offs) was televised as a popular soap opera of the same name in India in 1988.
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