He was one of the founders of the Progressive Writers Association (PWA) and was not interested in pursuing a career in law that he had trained for.
[4] In the 1940s, Razia and her husband were in Bombay, where they were active in the cultural sphere, organising weekly PWA soirees.
[7] In Lucknow, Razia began to teach, write and translate in order to earn a living.
[9] She translated Siyaram Sharan Gupta's Nari (published as Aurat (Woman) by Sahitya Akademi),[10] and Mulk Raj Anand's Saat Saal (Seven Years, 1962).
[12] For example, in Neech (Lowborn) she explored class differences between a privileged woman and a fruit-seller, and the prejudices the former has to set aside to obtain strength from the latter.
[16] Zard Gulab (The Yellow Rose, 1981) and Allah De Banda Le (God gives, Man takes, 1984) were two of her short story collections published posthumously.