Education
After obtaining the initial licence, she persevered on and completed one thousand hours of flying in the aircraft owned by the Lahore Flying Club.
After obtaining the initial licence, she persevered on and completed one thousand hours of flying in the aircraft owned by the Lahore Flying Club.
Born in 1914, she earned an aviation pilot license in 1936 at the age of 21 and flew a Gypsy Moth solo. She had a four-year-old daughter. She was the first Indian to get airmail pilot"s licence and flew between Karachi and Lahore and also first woman pilot to obtain "A’ license when she accumulated over 1000 hours of flying.
While she was working towards the commercial pilot license in 1939, World World War II broke out and civil training was suspended.
She abandoned her plans to become a commercial pilot, returned to Lahore and joined the Mayo School of Art where she trained in the Bengal school of painting and obtained a diploma in fine arts Sarla, also known as Mati, became a successful businesswoman, painter and began designing clothes and costume jewellery.
She died in 2009.