[1][2] A well-known personality in social welfare, literary Radio, TV and Stage, Bajia wrote for PTV Centres Islamabad and Lahore since the launch of those television channels.
[3] A native of Hyderabad, British India, she was born near Panj Bibi Mountain, in the town of Raichur in the present-day Indian state of Karnataka.
My family was settled in Hyderabad Deccan, which was then a paramount cultural center in undivided India.
These schools were primarily attended by pampered girls from the elite families of nawabs and jagirdars.
My grandfather felt that if we attended such schools, we would suffer from an inferiority complex, but since proper upbringing is not possible without coaching, he decided to carry out our education at home.
Director Agha Nasir hired her and Bajia made her debut as an actress in 1966 in one of his plays.
Nasir is quoted to have said, "During Zia ul Haq's time when the 'dupatta policy' was implemented and women were forced to behave a certain way, Bajia wrote about characters from Baghdad and Granada.
He further added that when writing a play, Bajia would literally move with her belongings to the TV station and then become an authority by default.
[6] Most recently she appeared in The Big Show on CNBC alongside another legendary writer Haseena Moin.