Bold and Beautiful Memoir, Kaghazi Hai Pairahan by Ismat Chugtai

Author(s)	Dr. Sanjay P. Lalani
Country	India
Abstract	This paper throws light on Ismat Chugtai as a creative and innovative writer who gives a new direction to Urdu literature. In her memoir, A Life in Words: Memoirs is originally written in Urdu entitle Kaghazi Hai Pairahan and translated by M. Assaduddin described the position of Muslim women of her society of Uttar Pradesh, India. She fights against patriarchy and cultural norms to get an education and has described the discrimination showed towards girls’ education. In this unfinished memoir, she narrates different facets of a woman’s life. She also describes her doom days when Lahore court in 1944 summoned for her short story ‘The Quilt’ (Lihaaf) published in 1942 in the Urdu literary journal Adb-I-Latif labeled a charge of obscenity. Her characterization is unique. The readers feel and visualize the characters; they smile, laugh, wonder and sometimes cry with the characters.
Keywords	Memoir, patriarchy, discrimination, obscenity
Published In	Volume 2, Issue 5, September-October 2020
Published On	2020-10-09
Cite This	Bold and Beautiful Memoir, Kaghazi Hai Pairahan by Ismat Chugtai - Dr. Sanjay P. Lalani - IJFMR Volume 2, Issue 5, September-October 2020. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2020.v02i05.11962
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2020.v02i05.11962
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gtfmm2

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