Salima Hashmi

Salima Hashmi was born in 1942 to an Anglo-Indian family in Delhi. During Partition, Mrs. Hashmi and her family took a bus from Srinagar to Murree. On the way, Mrs. Hashmi says she saw a bus that was full of people who had been killed. After reaching Murree, her mother organized the women in a procession to stop the rioting and bloodshed. Mrs. Hashmi and her family eventually settled in Lahore and began rebuilding their lives. Mrs. Hashmi went on to become a prominent artist, cultural writer and political activist in Pakistan. She also taught at Pakistan's prestigious National College of Arts (NCA) for about thirty years and served as its principal for four years.