These memoirs describe the author’s life experiences, insights and interaction with friends and family, and in fact, complement the memoirs of Akhtar Husain Raipuri, the noted Urdu critic and short story writer. Hameeda Raipuri also provides luminous vignettes of other prominent people such as her father Zafar Omar, a popular Urdu novelist of his day, Sarojini Naidu, M.K. Gandhi, and Maulvi Abdul Haq. Her description of the latter, capturing his unguarded ...
