Born in Lucknow in 1913, Hosain achieved some notoriety as the first woman from a feudal...
Literary responses
Kamila Shamsie
In a piece for The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Muneeza Shamsie
compared Salt and Saffron to Sunlight on a Broken Column, a novel written by KS
's great-aunt Attia Hosain
in 1961, highlighting...
Textual Production
Kamila Shamsie
KS
had a number of literary influences at an early age: she is said to have grown up to the sound of her journalist mother's typewriter, and her grandfather taught her the meaning and function...
