Hamid Dalwai

HAMID DALWAI was a journalist, social reformer and writer. Born into a lower-middle-class family in Maharashtra in 1932, he was a gifted writer, and his novel Indhan is recognized as a significant contribution to Marathi literature. He founded the Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal in the 1970s, and in his short life he relentlessly pursued religious and political reforms in the country. He died in 1977, at the age of forty-four.