Her bold, uncompromising vision mesmerized her readers. In her writing Ismal Chughtai’s courageous voice spoke up for the exploited and forgotten in society – the women and the poor. A true individualist, Chughtai’s life was a perfect mirror of her beliefs, and this book brings this out admirably. At a time when women in orthodox Muslim society stayed silently behind the veil, she stepped out to narrate the story of their lives – including writing on ...
