‘I went on a hunger strike’: How Ismat Chughtai protested against getting married at a young age

Ismat Chughtai Tahira Naqvi

· Dec 06, 2023 · 08:30 am

When Ismat Chughtai re-imagined the battle of Karbala in her book ‘One Drop of Blood’

Ismat Chughtai

· Dec 19, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Come see the world beyond Persian carpets’: What Ismat Chughtai told Qurratulain Hyder

Debojit Dutta, Sahapedia

· Aug 11, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘This is foolishness’: When Ismat Chughtai met Saadat Hasan Manto for the first time

Ismat Chughtai

· Sep 25, 2018 · 08:30 am

The big news: Kerala floods declared a ‘calamity of severe nature’, and nine other top stories

Scroll Staff

· Aug 21, 2018 · 08:59 am

Google celebrates 107th birthday of Urdu author Ismat Chughtai with a doodle

Scroll Staff

· Aug 21, 2018 · 08:33 am

The shadow play that connects Ismat Chughtai’s short story ‘Lihaaf’ and the movie ‘Dedh Ishqiya’

Scroll Staff

· Aug 21, 2018 · 07:15 am

From ‘S Durga’ to ‘Sacred Games’ and ‘Manto’: Rajshri Deshpande on playing strong, fearless women

Archana Nathan

· Jul 12, 2018 · 07:30 pm

‘Quit India!’ This story by Ismat Chughtai considers the fate of one man who was left behind

Ismat Chughtai

· Sep 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

Ismat Chughtai's controversial tale of sexual exploitation in the nobility returns to the stage

Alpana Chowdhury

· Dec 17, 2016 · 05:30 pm

Manto on Ismat, who, like independent India and Pakistan, was born on August 15

Niyati Bhat

· Aug 28, 2016 · 07:30 am