If you’re looking to understand the unfiltered social milieu of the 20th-century subcontinent, Ismat Chughtai is the author to turn to. In her short story Lihaaf (The Quilt), I found an insight into the pre-Partition domestic world, dynamic in its robust beliefs and delicate relationships. One of the famous literary deviants of that era, Chughtai published this story in 1942 in the Urdu literary...
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