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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.

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3. www.rekhta.org › authors › ismat-chughtaiIsmat Chughtai - Profile & Biography | Rekhta

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   Oct 24, 1991 · Learn about the life and works of Ismat Chughtai, a pioneer of modern Urdu fiction and a rebel against social norms. Read about her childhood, education, marriage, controversies, and achievements in this comprehensive profile.

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   Ismat Chughtai collection of short stories, articles, and ebooks in Urdu, Hindi & English. Read more about Ismat Chughtai and access their famous audio, video, and ebooks.”.

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     Lihaaf (The Quilt) : Story by Ismat Chughtai in Hindi | summary | Analysis | Literature

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     Roots short story by Ismat Chughtai | Summary |English literature |Pakistani writers

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     The Quilt Summary with Animation - Ismat Chugtai - BA English - UGC

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6. daily.jstor.org › ismat-chughtais-quilt-and-queerIsmat Chughtai’s Quilt and Queer Desire - JSTOR Daily

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   Sep 2, 2023 · How did the Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai challenge heteronormativity in colonial India with her short story “Lihaaf”? Learn about her queer space, her real-life inspirations, and her metaphor of the quilt.

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   Ismat Chughtai is an Indian Urdu-language writer. Best known for such short-stories as Lihaaf (1942) and Chu Mui (1952), she also wrote other works including novels and non-fictional essays.

8. feminisminindia.com › remembering-ismat-chughtaiIsmat Chughtai: Remembering A Feminist Literary Icon

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   Ismat Chughtai was a bold and progressive Urdu writer who challenged patriarchal norms and explored women's sexuality and identity in her stories. She wrote about topics that were considered 'forbidden' and faced legal charges for her work, but also influenced many feminists with her courage and creativity.

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   Who is Ismat Chughtai?

   • 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.

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   Why did Ismat Chughtai write 'Lihaaf'?

   • It concealed non-normative sexualities without curtailing them. Indeed, the writer Ismat Chughtai carefully wove one during the colonial 1940s with “Lihaaf” (“The Quilt”), an audacious real-life inspired Urdu short story that challenged heteronormativity, and in the process caused great controversy.

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   Does Ismat Chughtai still write?

   • 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.

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   Was Ismat Chughtai a communist?

   • Ismat Chughtai was associated with the progressive movement of Urdu, but unlike other communist writers of her time, she made internal, social, and emotional exploitation the subject of her stories instead of external, social exploitation.

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   When did Ismat Chughtai start writing stories?

   • Ismat Chughtai started writing stories at the age of eleven or twelve but did not publish them under her own name. In 1939, when her first story titled ‘Fasadi’ published in the distinguished journal Saqi, people thought it was her brother, a well-known writer, Azeem Beg Chughtai had written this story under a pseudonym.

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   Did Ismat Chughtai write about the world she saw?

   • "Born on India's future Independence Day, Ismat Chughtai wrote of the world she saw, not aspired to". Scroll.in. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017. ^ a b McLain, Karline.

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10. www.youthkiawaaz.com › 2019 › 04Ismat Chughtai: The Iconic Feminist Writer Of Urdu Literature

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    Apr 24, 2019 · Learn about Ismat Chughtai, one of the first few feminist writers in Urdu literature, who wrote eloquently on the issues of women of lower and lower middle class. Read her stories on topics such as marriage, partition, homosexuality and oppression.