Ismat Chughtai
Key Features The first-ever complete translation of Ismat Chughtai's celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan About the Book: A Life in Words: Memoirs The story of Urdu's most controversial writer in her own words. A Life in Words, the first complete translation of her celebrated memoirKaghazi hai Pairahan, provides an authentic and delightful account ofseveral crucial years of Ismat's life. Presented along with the vivid andhigh-energy descriptions of her childhood years are the conflictedexperiences of growing up in a large Muslim family during the earlydecades of the twentieth century. We get an intimate view of a writer'sfierce struggle to find her own voice and depict with passion and precisionthe visible and subtle tyrannies of contemporary society. A Life in Wordsis a searingly honest and compellingly readable memoir of the life of oneof the most significant Urdu writers of all time About the Authors: Ismat Chugtai, Asaduddin A fiery and controversial writer, Ismat Chughtai appeared on the Urduliterary scene during the heyday of the Progressive Writers' Movement.Considered the subcontinent's foremost feminist writer, she was alwaysinstinctively aware of the double standards that governed the position ofwomen in the largely feudal and patriarchal society of the time. She dideverything in her power to expose and subvert it. M. Asaduddin is an author, critic and translator. His work has beenrecognized with the Sahitya Akademi Prize, and the KATHA and A.K.Ramanujan awards for translation. He is currently Professor, Departmentof English, Jamia Millia Islamia.
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A Life in Words