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Articles for Ismat Chughtai

Book of a lifetime: The Quilt and Other Stories by Ismat Chughtai
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Book of a lifetime: The Quilt and Other Stories by Ismat Chughtai

The Independent  

Why is it that, most of the time, life-changing events appear to come out of nowhere? But it was only in my thirties that I stumbled upon two Urdu authors, Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto, whose work had a seminal impact on me – and whose rebellious lives I carry about with me like a talisman. It was a …

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Rakhshanda Jalil – “I refuse to be bullied or marginalised”
1 year, 3 months ago

Rakhshanda Jalil – “I refuse to be bullied or marginalised”

Hindustan Times  

Has the focus on Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chughtai, Premchand, Qurratulain Hyder, and Gulzar among Urdu-English translators overshadowed other writers from being known more widely? In this instance, while talking about the best of Urdu short stories, I clearly didn’t want to start with the “four pillars of the Urdu short story” namely Saadat Hasan Manto, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Ismat …

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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 …

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

Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai gets a Google Doodle on 107th birthday

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Enfant terrible
10 years, 6 months ago

Enfant terrible

The Hindu  

THE epitaph on the grave of Rashid Jahan in Moscow encapsulates her life in these three words. This is supported by Rakhshanda Jalil, who informs one in her introduction that “a generation of women writers—notably Ismat Chughtai, Attia Hosain, Razia Sajjad Zaheer and Sadiqa Begum Soharvi—acknowledged the influence of Rashid Jahan on their lives and writing”. Studying in Lucknow and …

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