She migrated along with her family members to Pakistan in 1947 at the time of independence "in the wake of burning trains of corpses going into and out of both countries, as Muslims moved to Pakistan and Hindus to India.". In 1959, the release of her novel "Aag ka Darya (River of Fire)" met with controversy in Pakistan. Soon after publication, she decided to go back to India, where she had since lived. She worked as a journalist to earn her living but kept publishing short stories, literary translations and novels regularly, by now almost thirty in number.She was Managing Editor of the magazine "Imprint", Bombay (1964–68), and a member of the editorial staff of the "Illustrated Weekly of India" (1968–75). Her books have been translated into English and other languages.