Episode 476
Ismat Chughtai
Wed, 2018-Aug-22 01:57 UTC
Length - 1:42
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With 284,593 views on Tuesday, 21 August 2018 our article of the day is Ismat Chughtai.
Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915–24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu language writer. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
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