The birth centenary of literary trailblazer Ismat Chughtai was celebrated in the city over two days last week with a seminar on September 10 and a theatrical adaptation of her short stories the next ...

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The name of the Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai is known to every literature lover. Chughtai never bow to conventions and relentlessly wrote about women, their desires and the oppression they face in the ...

Ismat Chughtai’s personality was a strong blend of her culture and education and quite summed up the region she belonged to The way things are presently in India, it seems the country has thrown its ...

Born in 1911, Ismat Chughtai was a name that went on to be associated with the birth of revolutionary feminist politics in Urdu literature in the 20th century. Writing about taboo subjects, from ...

KARACHI: Eminent critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered a lecture on ‘Ismat Chughtai — The First Rebel in Urdu Fiction’ at the Arts Council of Pakistan on Saturday evening. The topic that the council had ...

Nandita Das’s second directorial, the Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer Manto, has found its Ismat Chughtai in actress Rajshri Deshpande, who was previously seen in Angry Indian Goddesses. Nandita Das’s ...

Ismat Chughtai’s Lihaaf, a story about repressed physicality and how it finds expression, has been staged many times. When it was performed on December 13 at the Thespo Festival at Mumbai’s Prithvi ...

Ismat Apa needed no external tools to construct her self; she had conviction and the strength to translate her conviction into action. Nor did she require any weapons to demolish old notions or ...

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 Urdu, ...