Author: Ismat ChughtaiTranslator(s)/ Editors(s): Tahira NaqviPublisher: Women UnlimitedYear: 2015Language: EnglishPages: 284ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788188965984
Description
This selection from Ismat Chughtai’s prose writing, comprising essays, commentaries and pen-portraits of her contemporaries, gives the reader a good idea of the artistic, political and social mores of her times. It also serves as a background to her own work and furnishes insights into the art and lives of her contemporaries.Chughtai’s involvement with the Progressive Writers’ Association and her friendship with writers like Sa’dat Hasan Manto, Patras Bokhari, Krishan Chander, Rajinder Singh Bedi, and others have resulted in a treasure-trove of writing, marked by her characteristic irreverence and wit.About The Translator:Tahira Naqvi is a translator, writer and Urdu language lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. She has translated the works of Sa’dat Hasan Manto, Munshi Premchand, Khadija Mastur and Ismat Chughtai into English.
