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- Chughtai passed away on Oct 24, 1991 and remains an integral figure in Urdu literature. Her works continue to initiate discussions and no discussion about feminist literature or women authors are complete without her.
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Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective.
- On The Importance of Agency
- On The Theme of Independence
- On The Male Gaze
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When Ismat Chughtai writes of her childhood, “Shall I tell everyone that I thank God for sheer survival? That I’m glad childhood was temporary, and that it’s over and done with?”(1), the general expectation is that Ismat Chughtai must have dark instances to recount: after all, the language that she chooses to write in is Urdu, which has historicall...
The theme of independence in Ismat Chughtai’s work cannot be separated from the politics of the time that she was writing in. While political activists and agents that were at the forefront of the Indian freedom struggle focus on India’s identity as separate from Britain in their work, she focuses on the way freedom is defined within India. Ismat C...
Interestingly, Ismat Chughtai herself addressed the issue of the male gaze in her essay titled ‘Aurat’. Though the term itself was coined by Laura Mulvey in 1975, it is very fitting to see Chughtai’s observations. She writes,“They will make a woman a goddess or heavenly creature, but will be ashamed to call them a friend or comrade.”(2) The structu...
As translated to English by M.Asaduddin for the Penguin Random House compilation ‘Lifting the Veil’, published in 2018.As translated to English by Raza Naeem for the Cafe Dissensus essay, ‘Half-Women or Half-Dreams? The Lives and Afterlives of Ismat Chughtai’s ‘New Women’ in India’, published in 2018.Jul 5, 2021 · I will be taking two stories of Chughtai and draw out some of the most common markers of her writing which relegate her writing mode to the satiric, while also investigating what provides the ‘literariness’ to her writing through a discussion of the way she frames her stories in Urdu.
Ismat Chughtai didn’t do much writing after the sixties. Her works, however, are still relevant to this date and no studies of progressive Urdu Literature and feminist theories are possible without a study of her works.
Aug 19, 2015 · She has never written about a boy and a girl falling in love and living happily ever after. She would always talk of dysfunctional relationships. She’d write about the less privileged. She has written a story about a bhangan, a jamadarni.
Though Ismat Chughtai, would never have liked to be bracketed as a “woman writer”, she was the apotheosis of one. Her close friend Manto said, “Ismat’s identity as a woman has left its deep...
Oct 24, 1991 · Real Name : Ismat Chughtai. Born : 21 Aug 1915 | Badayun, Uttar pradesh. Died : 24 Oct 1991 | Mumbai, Maharashtra. Relatives : Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai (Brother) Ismat Chughtai is considered by many to be the fourth pillar of modern Urdu fiction along with Saadat Hassan Manto, Rajendra Singh Bedi, and Krishan Chandar.
