About Salma Siddiqui
Salma Siddiqui (1931-2017) was an Urdu novelist and prominent member of the Progressive Writers’ Movement. Her best known work is Sikandarnama (first appearing as short stories in Dharmyug, then published by the imprint Jnanpith), a work documenting the various idiosyncrasies of her domestic help, Sikander. Most of her other writing was destroyed in an unexpected monsoon shower, and the story above is one of few that have survived.
