always multilayered and challenging stereotypes whether that is through the character of the mother in mai ma in tomb of sand or chachcho and lalna in the roof beneath their feet she added risk he was putting his wife in other stories too in their own way leave a lasting impression and successfully recreate the forlorn era that reeked of conservatism in creating the modern prison we still live in kaifi spoke for the masses he fought through his writing against injustice his work has never been more relevant than now when one thinks of the hardships people experience he wrote about the downtrodden after living with them he wrote of womens rights that did not mean he had different standards for the women in his own home that is why he had a daughter like shabana azmi