Yesterday Google Doodle celebrated the writer Ismat Chughtai’s 107th birthday; today people are adding her books to their reading list. In 1942, after publishing Lihaaf (The Quilt), Chughtai had ...

Ismat Chughtai was a rebel woman writer in the world of Urdu fiction. In his Foreword to Ismat’s first collection of short stories, Choten (Wounds), the eminent fiction writer of her time, Krishan ...

When it was published in 1942, Ismat Chughtai's most (in)famous work Lihaaf (The Quilt) sparked outrageâ and an obscenity trialâ for its depiction of queer, inter-generational intimacy.

New Delhi: Theatre is a living, breathing art form. “It has a heart and mind. It grows and it dies,” said director and actor Ratna Pathak Shah at a talk on theatre in Indian languages, beyond ...

As evidenced in her controversial novels (Lihaaf, about an unorthodox relationship ... Hai and Raat Bhar Ka Mehman Hai Andhera. Besides Ismat Chughtai, the film writings of Urdu littérateur ...

The idea of Kaagaz ke Gubbare was born out of dramatised readings of Ismat Chughtai’s works. I began to explore her writings and see where it would take me, as opposed to having a definite idea of the ...