Ismat Chughtai, Indian author and screenwriter (born 1915)

Ismat Chughtai

Indian Urdu writer and filmmaker (1911–1991)

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, often from a Marxist perspective. With a…