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One of the most prominent fiction writers of the non-traditional kind, well known for her stories 'Lihaf' and 'Tedhi Lakeer'.
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.”.
- Til
- Gainda
- Gharwali
- Vocation
- Lihaaf
Themes– the stigma attached to ‘promiscuous’ women and their ‘threatening’ sexuality The Molenarrates the story of an artist who aspires to win some money after he has successfully painted the village woman Rani. Rani is young, voluptuous and full of erotic energy. She has no inhibitions in asserting her sexual desires and she openly makes sexual a...
Themes– caste-class oppression, taboo surrounding widow remarriage, pre-marital pregnancy, female kinship and sisterhood Gainda is a domestic helper in an upper caste household. After a brief affair with the aggressive ‘Bhaiya’ of the employer family, her fate is left hanging in a precarious balance. Gainda’s rebellion is two-fold – she is a lower ...
Themes– female sexuality and eroticism, the institution of marriage as oppressive Mirza, like other male characters in Chughtai’s various stories, dons a garb of piety. The entry of a sexually liberated Lajo as his domestic help alters his demeanour. Lajo is fierce, vocal in her demand for sex and despises wearing constricting pants in place of a f...
Themes– prostitution, the constructed binary of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ women, dignity of work The story is narrated from the perspective of a woman who views courtesans with inexplicable hatred and disdain. Priding herself for belonging to the noble profession of teaching, she professes and practices conventional morality and chastity before marriage. Ho...
Themes– Same-sex desire, homoeroticism, suppression of the woman’s sexual desires in marriage, pedophilia Perhaps her most widely read and critiqued story, Lihaafcreated a massive controversy upon its publication. Chughtai fought a legal battle, defending her writing from charges of obscenity and eventually won. Narrated from a child’s perspective,...
आत्मकथात्मक शैली में लिखी गई कहानी। चुग़ताई ख़ानदान का एक शजरा है। जिसमें बहन है, भाई है, भाभी, भतीजे और भतीजियाँ। भाभियों को लेकर बहन-भाई का झगड़ा है। कोसना है, रोना है, एक दूसरे को छेड़ना और गालियाँ बकना है। गालियाँ बकने और झगड़ने में बिच्छू फूफी आगे है। बिच्छू अपने भाई से क्यों झगड़ती है और उसे गालियाँ बकती है, इसकी एक नहीं बहुत सारी वज्हें है...
Mar 20, 2021 · Literary Trails The story of female sexuality by Ismat Chugtai written in 1942, that won her an obscenity trial in which she stood by her story, refused to apologise and had it dismissed. Told from the viewpoint of a young girl ...[Read More]...
Dec 1, 1994 · In 1944 Ismat Chughtai successfully defended herself before the Imperial Crown Court against a charge of obscenity for her short story Lihaaf - The Quilt. The narrator of this story, a precocious nine-year old child, is sent to visit an aunt.
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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. [1] [2] Chughtai's unfinished autobiography Kaghazi Hai Pairahan was published posthumously.
