Writing · Writer · Dialogue · Story
Born Aug 21, 1915
Active 1948–1991 · Awards: Filmfare Awards, Padma Shri in literature and education
Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict,…