Essay: A tribute to Ismat Chughtai
2 years, 5 months ago

Essay: A tribute to Ismat Chughtai

Hindustan Times  

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 imprint on all branches of her writing, which guides us at every step in our appreciation of her art. She portrays the struggle of women against oppressive social institutions of her time and her deep understanding and perception of the female psyche are clearly reflected in her writings,” writes Megha Katoria in her paper, Women and Sexuality – Gender-Class Interface in Selected Short Stories of Ismat Chughtai. Authors like Ismat Chughtai live on through their work, finally attaining that elusive immortality that every writer craves.

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Feisty Ismat Chugtai, Partition conversations, talking to Geetanjali Shree and more
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Feisty Ismat Chugtai, Partition conversations, talking to Geetanjali Shree and more

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Ismat Chughtai: Who was the iconic feminist author?
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Ismat Chughtai: Who was the iconic feminist author?

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Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai gets a Google Doodle on 107th birthday
6 years, 7 months ago

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Live Mint  

New Delhi: Celebrated Urdu author Ismat Chughtai, known for her literary works exploring free speech, social liberation, and gender equality, was on Tuesday paid homage by search engine giant Google with a colourful doodle on her 107th birthday. “This was also the case for another of her famous stories, “Gainda”, which told the tale of a domestic worker who falls …

Ismat Chughtai's 107th birthday: Google Doodle salutes 'grande dame of Urdu fiction'
6 years, 7 months ago

Ismat Chughtai's 107th birthday: Google Doodle salutes 'grande dame of Urdu fiction'

Firstpost  

To gain an insight into the individual who was Ismat Chughtai, one need look no further than the time she was hauled up before a court in Lahore, on an obscenity charge for her story Lihaaf. To the judge who later told her that he didn’t find anything obscene in Lihaaf, but that Manto’s writings were “littered with filth”, Chughtai …

Remembering a trailblazer
8 years, 2 months ago

Remembering a trailblazer

The Hindu  

The World Book Fair, held at the Capital’s famous Pragati Maidan recently concluded in a most apt manner with the release of “Ismat Aapa” at the stalls of its publisher Vani Prakashan. It is not a very well known fact that M. S. Sathyu’s celebrated film “Garm Hava” –whose screenplay was written by Kaifi Azmi and Shama Zaidi –was based …

Ismat Chughtai’s fearless pen
9 years, 7 months ago

Ismat Chughtai’s fearless pen

Live Mint  

Ismat Chughtai always reminds me of that other writer. Chughtai, who died in 1991 at age 76, doesn’t remind me of any writer because none like her exist today. When Naseeruddin Shah’s troupe Motley began showcasing the works of Saadat Hasan Manto and Chughtai, they would have found the latter especially easy to deal with. Look at the Wodehousian manner …

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