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 ...

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Back in 1983, though, it was mostly your typical gathering of Bombay’s Marxist literati. Sitting at the centre of a white dias on Prithvi Theatre’s stage, the illustrious Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai ...

So starts the second chapter of Marni Khan and the Ancient Silk Route, a young adult fantasy novel by Saniya Chughtai — the first, the author told us, of five books in The Rise of the Energy Warriors ...

The 50th death anniversary of renowned painter Abdul Rahman Chughtai was observed on Friday. He is also called 'Musawwer-e-Mashriq'. Abdul Rahman Chughtai is known for his unique and distinctive ...

It is interesting to note that two of the greatest Urdu writers of the Twentieth Century, Sadat Hasan Manto and Ismat Chughtai, were arrested and put on trial for the charges of obscenity.

Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor Emerita of acting and directing at Smith, a Fulbright Scholar in Costa Rica, Fulbright Senior Specialist in Pakistan, Romania and Hong Kong, an actress, director and ...