Ismat Chughtai Essays
The Interplay of Desire and Repression in Ismat Chughtai’s ‘The Quilt’ College
The Quilt
The Quilt or ‘Lihaf ’ as popularly known is a short story by Ismat Chughtai which was published in the year 1941 in a leading urdu magazine of the time and was received amdist a lot of controversy and chaos. And rightly so, given how much the...