Editing Begum Akhtar (section)

==Early life==
[[File:BegumAkhtar.jpg|thumb|Begum Akhtar's ancestral home in [[Faizabad]]]]

Akhtari Bai Faizabadi was born on 7 October 1914 to Asghar Hussain, a lawyer and his second wife Mushtari.<ref name=Josh>{{cite news |title=Uttar Pradesh Government approved new guidelines for Begum Akhtar Award |url=http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/uttar-pradesh-government-approved-new-guidelines-for-begum-akhtar-award-1439350478-1 |access-date=1 October 2020 |work=Jagranjosh.com |date=12 August 2015}}</ref> Asghar Hussain subsequently disowned Mushtari and his twin daughters Zohra and Bibbi (later known as Begum Akhtar).<ref name="live">{{cite news |url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/lRS1H4LcCjlyUHIdguk2oJ/What-a-life.html |title=What a life – (Begum Akhtar's real life was much wilder than fiction) |author=Priya Ramani |newspaper=Mint (newspaper) |date=7 November 2008 |access-date=30 September 2020}}</ref><ref name=LiveMint>{{cite news |url=https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/memories-of-akhtari-11570190924213.html |newspaper=Mint (newspaper) |author=Shreya Ila Anasuya |date=5 October 2019 |title=Memories of Akhtari |access-date=30 September 2020}}</ref>