Ismat Chughtai (Urdu: عصمت چغتائی) (August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an eminent Urdu writer, known for her indomitable spirit and a fierce feminist ideology. She was considered the grand dame of Urdu fiction, as one of the four pillars of modern Urdu short story, the other three being Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander, and Rajinder Singh Bedi. Her outspoken and controversial style of writing made her the passionate voice for the unheard, and she has become an inspiration for the younger generation of secular writers, readers and intellectuals.
I have come across one of her Afsaana CHATAAN which deals, like many other short stories of Ismat Chughtai, with misery and problems of women which are sometimes not problems actually. Rather these are somekind of natural changings but Ismat believes that problem for women. What else should we expect from a feminist like her?? Here you go the Afsaana CHATAAN!!
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