Sadia Dehlvi
Sadia Dehlvi (born 1957) is a Delhi-based media person, activist, writer and a columnist with the daily newspaper, the Hindustan Times, and frequently published in Frontline Urdu, Hindi and English newspapers and magazines. She is known to be devotee of Khwaja Gharib Nawaz of Ajmer and Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. She is popularly known for criticizing radical interpretations of Islam and calls for a pluralistic understanding of Islam. Dehlvi has produced and scripted a number of documentaries and television programs, including Amma and Family (1995), starring Zohra Sehgal, a veteran stage actor.
Biography
Sadia Dehlvi was born in Delhi in 1957, to one of the oldest media houses of Delhi, Shama group of Publications, a renowned name in Urdu publication which published 'Shama', a literary and film Urdu monthly, and eventually closed in 1987. 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, the one time Delhi's cultural hub, today houses Bahujan Samaj Party headquarters, (since 2002). Her surname 'Dehlvi" (Dehlavi) means someone from Delhi reflecting her family's long association with Delhi.
Dehlvi, Sadia Filmography
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2001, role: actress , character name: Hajra
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2001, role: miscellaneous crew
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1998, role: producer
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1995, role: actress , character name: Sadia
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1995, role: writer
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1991, role: producer
Podcasts:
Sweet Life
I'm gonna be a farmer
Ploughing the fields in the morning sun
I'll have a million horses
Take me a ride when the work is done
I'm gonna have a sweet life
Sweetest life you've ever seen
And when the day is over
I'm gonna go to sleep in the field of green
Mamma, can you hear me?
Mamma, can you hear me?
Daddy, do you know what I mean?
(Mamma, can you hear me?)
Mamma, can you hear me?
(Mamma)
Mamma, can you hear me?
(Mamma, can you hear me?)
Daddy, do you know what I mean?
I'm gonna be an actor
Playing a part in a light of gold
Gonna make a lot of money
(Gonna be a big man)
I'm gonna spend it all before I get too old
I'm gonna have a sweet life
Sweetest life you've ever seen
And when the day is over
Gonna go to sleep in a field of green
Mamma, can you hear me?
(Mamma)
Mamma, can you hear me?
(Mamma, can you hear me?)
Daddy, do you know what I mean
Mamma, mamma, mamma
Mamma, mamma, mamma
Mamma, can you hear me?
(Mamma, can you hear me?)
Mamma, can you hear me?
(Mamma, can you hear me?)
Daddy, do you know what I mean
Mamma, mamma, mamma
Mamma, mamma, mamma
Mamma, can you hear me?
(Mamma, can you hear me?)
Mamma, can you hear me?
(Mamma, can you hear me?)
Daddy, do you know what I mean
Mamma, mamma, mamma
Mamma, mamma, mamma
Mamma, can you hear me?
(Mamma, can you hear me?)
Mamma, can you hear me?
(Mamma, can you hear me?)
Daddy, do you know what I mean
Mamma, can you hear me?