"Lihaaf" ("The Quilt") is an Urdu short story written by Ismat Chughtai which was published in the Urdu literary journal Adab-i-Latif in 1942. In the coming decades, it was widely anthologised and faced an obscenity trial.[1] It is one of Chughtai's well known works.[2]
The story deals deals with suggestive lesbianism, but also with the insulated and suffocating life of a neglected wife in a feudal society as well as sexual abuse.
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Begum Jaan in the narrator’s aunt and the story's primary antagonist. A very beautiful woman who is married to a nawab (a Muslim nobleman), Begum Jaan finds that her husband has no interest in her and prefers to spend time behind closed doors with...
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It was Rabbu who rescued her from the fall. Soon her thin body began to fill out. Her cheeks began to glow and she blossomed in beauty. It was a special oil massage that brought life back to the half-dead Begum Jaan. Sorry, you won’...
