إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

                                                                    From the God we come and to Him, we return.

It is impossible to capture the fullness of my mother’s 95 years in the paragraphs below. What follows is a brief memoir—an attempt to weave together the many adventures and triumphs that shaped her remarkable life.

Razia Sultana (Hyderabad, India, 1929 – Pleasanton, California, USA, 2025), named after the legendary Indian warrior queen, lived a life worthy of her namesake. …