A well-known journalist and script writer, Sadia Dehlvi, 63, passed away on August 5, 2020, after a long and fight with cancer. She was a writer whose work increasingly began to focus on faith, culture, and women. She would also appear in television debates, as the lone voice of sanity and calm, talking of peace and reconciliation. She also wrote a column for Hindustan Times. She would narrate stories and talk about the tehzeeb of Dilli (Culture of Delhi) with such soulfulness that you would be transported to a mystical place – a Delhi that is now lost.
She also authored books like Sufism, the Heart of Islam, The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi, Dilli ka Dastarkhwan, Jasmine and Jinns: Memories.
She worked in two TV series, namely, Zindagi Kitni Khoobsoorat Hai (2001) and Amma and Family (1995, as a writer) and produced a TV series, based on Khushwant Singh’s book, Not a Nice Man to Know, telecast in 1998.