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Aug 21, 2021 · Ismat Chughtai strikes right at the festering sore of the society and the deeply entrenched patriarchy “Purdah had already been imposed on me, but my tongue was an unsheathed sword. No one could restrain it,” writes Ismat Chughtai (1915-91), one of the pioneers of Urdu fiction, in a fragment from her memoir in Lifting The Veil: Selected Writings of Ismat Chughtai (2001), selected and translated by M. Asaduddin.
Aug 23, 2015 · Much later, after Ismat died, Qurratulain Hyder, by now an eminent writer, wrote a piece on Ismat ‘Lady Chengiz Khan’ and said: “In the battle-field of Urdu literature, Ismat was a Chughtai ...
Ismat Chughtai (Urdu: عصمت چغتائی) (August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an eminent Urdu writer, known for her indomitable spirit and a fierce feminist ideology. She was considered the grand dame of Urdu fiction, Along with Rashid Jahan, Wajeda Tabassum and Qurratulain Hyder, Ismat’s work stands for the birth of a revolutionary feminist politics and aesthetics in twentieth century Urdu literature.
Ismat Chughtai’s above short stories not merely question the existing stereotypes. around a woman’s marriage but simultaneously, also compel the reader to ponder on the areas of discrimination ...
This brilliant translation of Ismat Chughtai’s original Urdu novel Ajeeb Aadmi is the riveting story of Dharam Dev, the famous actor, director and producer, and his all-consuming and doomed passion for Zarina Jamal, the young dancer from Madras whom he brings to Bombay and transforms into a charismatic actress. He looks on in anguish as his betrayed wife, Mangala, a well-known playback singer, sinks slowly into alcoholism.
Ismat Chughtai was born on August 21, 1915, in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh. Her father, Mirza Qasim Beg Chughtai, was a high-ranking government official. She was the youngest of nine siblings, all her sisters had been married until she gained awareness, thus, in her childhood, she only had the company of her brothers, and she continuously challenged their supremacy.
May 28, 2023 · Kaghazi Hai Pairahan - A Life in Words, Autobiography, Translated from Urdu by M. Asaduddin, English, Ismat Chughtai
