Attia hosain biography of martin

          QUESTION: Where were you born and where did you grew up?

        1. Attia Hosain (), a novelist and a short story writer, was born and educated in Lucknow.
        2. Attia Hosain was the first person to ever speak to me as though I was an adult.
        3. Attia Hosain (–) was a writer, feminist and broadcaster.
        4. Attia Hossain's seminal work spans over two decades against the backdrop of partition and speaks about women's plight.

          5. Attia Hosain was the first person to ever speak to me as though I was an adult....

          "It appeared at times that neo-Indians wore their nationalism like a mask, and their Indianness like fancy dress," says Laila, the narrator of Attia Hosain's only published novel, Sunlight on a Broken Column ().

          Referring to "the 'smart set' of Bombay and Delhi" who returned home in the s and 40s after an elite Western education and decided to embrace their roots, in their own fashion, usually through superficial markers of attire and conduct, the remark captures Laila's (and her creator's) disdain for such shallow patriotism.

          It also resonates sharply with the pulse of contemporary India, where keeping up appearances is quickly becoming the key to being regarded as a model citizen.

          Fealty to the nation is now measured in decibel levels of voices singing praises to the motherland, the alacrity with which contraband meat is rejected, and by an unquestioning submission to a way of life dictated by good sanskar (rituals).

          Reading Hosain's novel, more than fifty years after i