Azadi's Daughter, A Memoir: Being a Secular Muslim in India

By Seema Mustafa

A fascinating account of an audacious woman’s journey and a rapidly vanishing way of life, Azadi's Daughter is both a personal memoir and a political commentary. Journalist Seema Mustafa writes evocatively of the secular, pluralist India of the 1960s and ’70s, chronicling her life as a Muslim woman born into th

• Language: English
• Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
• Release date: Jun 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9789386582201

Seema Mustafa

'Seema Mustafa' has been a journalist since the age of 19. She has worked in almost all major Indian newspapers and written for many others-'The Pioneer', 'The Patriot', 'The Indian Express', 'The Telegraph', 'Economic Times', 'Asian Age'-during a long career that has taken her across the globe on assignments. She has covered conflict in Assam, Punjab and Kashmir; communal violence in different states of India; and was the first Indian journalist to cover the first war in Beirut. In addition, she has worked for a couple of years as the National Affairs Editor for the News X television channel. She is presently the Founder-Editor of 'The Citizen', an online initiative.