#ismat chugtai

[beguines]

The manner of Shaukat's entry into the Andheri commune explains some of its attraction for her. She was raised in a Muslim family she describes as "mildly progressive" and not overly religious, who lived in the feudal princely state of Hyderabad – the political epicentre of the Telangana uprising, led by the Communist Party. Shaukat's is a tale of a political and romantic awakening. She first met Kaifi at a Progressive Writers' Association (PWA) gathering, and admired his nerve at reciting "a powerful poem against the monarchy and injustice in the Nizam's city". When Kaifi recited his radical poem 'Aurat' or 'Woman' which begins "Arise, my love, for now you must march with me / Flames of war are ablaze in our world today", Shaukat tells us, "I fixed my gaze on Kaifi, convinced that he had written this poem for me, and I alone had the right to march with him".

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Shaukat loved both the comrades' departures from familial conventions, but also the ways in which they replicated older familial conventions. Razia Sajjad Zaheer was "as affectionate as Ammajan would have been," lending Shaukat her own wedding clothes and gold bangles. Other comrades stood in for the ritual roles performed by parents, for the wedding ceremony was not, as one might expect, a secular affair, but a nikkah, during which the comrades had to do some clever manoeuvring to disguise the fact that the bride was Sunni and the bridegroom Shia. Shaukat herself fluctuated between playing the conventional shy bride, and forgetting to do so, thrilling to the presence of guests such as Ismat Chugtai, the fiery writer.

Of course, many weddings in the commune took secular and even radical forms. P.C. Joshi and Kalpana Dutt were married on the open terrace of the commune, with music being provided by Benoy Roy and the Party's Cultural Squad. Tea and biscuits were served, and the bride's red sari sent by the groom's family was later cut up into red flags. The marriage of Chari's sister-in-law Leila and P. Sundarayya (a central committee member who was a major figure in the Telangana uprising) simply took the form of the couple telling Joshi that they would live together as husband and wife. The very difficulty of forging unusual alliances, and of sustaining them in trying circumstances, can entrench the power of marriage. But for some comrades, such as Chari, living in the commune enabled a departure from "a life lived as individual islands of I's, husband and wife etc. There is a lot of humdrum tedium and a lot of waste. I am all for life in a commune. There is privacy when you feel the need for it. Otherwise you are right in the stream of life and working for a better life."

Ania Loomba, Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India

[uneviemorose]

Back to regular programing ( enjoying fujoshi)

Current cw : Interview With The Vampire , Fellow Travellers , Banana Fish , Industry, Doctor Who, Daily Dose of Sunshine, X Files

Anime I aim to complete : Bunguo Stray Dogs, Monster, Psycho Pass

Books : by Romila Thapar, by Ismat Chugtai, Orientalism by Edward Said , Japanese murder mystery 😟, Mornings In Jenin, Aangan, The Right to Sex, The Great Partition, Trick Mirror, The CIA as Organized Violence

( also some mangas : I want to finish My Lesbian Experience with loneliness, Skip and Loafer, Solanin, Goodnight Punpun and Pink)

lol I'm going crazy this was just for fun

[vision4perception]

Indian Jews live a very secretive life: Esther David on writing a book on Indian Jews' recipes 'Bene Appetit' - Times of India

Indian Jews live a very secretive life: Esther David on writing a book on Indian Jews’ recipes ‘Bene Appetit’ – Times of India

India is a land of diverse cultures and religions, and one such diminishing community is that of the Indian Jews with less than five thousand Jewish people in the country. In her latest book ‘Bene Appetit’, author-art critic-columnist-artist Esther David captures and gives the readers a unique glimpse of the Bene Israel Jewish community of India and their largely unknown cuisine. Esther David won…

[thevividgreenmoss]

Ismat Chugtai, Chhoti Apa

[bollywoodirect]

Release This Day- #Fire (06 September 1996) is an Indian-Canadian romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, and starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first installment of Mehta's Elements trilogy; it is succeeded by Earth (1998) and Water (2005).

The film is loosely based on Ismat Chughtai's 1942 story, Lihaaf (The Quilt). It was one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show homosexual relations. After its 1998 release in India, certain groups staged several protests, setting off a flurry of public dialogue around issues such as homosexuality and freedom of speech.

Like बॉलीवुड डायरेक्ट Bollywoodirect

[bauliya]

saw your post about finally enjoying work by indian authors when you found writers who weren't pushing hindutva agenda on you-- don't be shy, drop some recs!

arundhati roy (love of my life mwah), mimi mondal, ismat chugtai, meenakshi kandasamy and mahasweta devi :)

[onequoteperday]

Ismat Chugtai convinced her father to let her go to school and get an education, instead of making her learn how to cook: ‘Women cook food Ismat. When you go to your in-laws what will you feed them?’ he asked gently after the crisis was explained to him. ‘If my husband is poor, then we will make khichdi and eat it and if he is rich, we will hire a cook,’ I answered. My father realized his daughter was a terror and that there wasn’t a thing he could do about it.

Ismat Chughtai (from The Quilt)

[wintrbear]

My father realised his daughter was a terror and that there wasn't a thing he could do about it.

- Ismat Chugtai

[guywhosoldtheworld]

Manto Zinda Hai (Manto is Alive)

“And it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive” these words of Saadat Hasan Manto have proved to be true over the years. 2020 will mark the 65th death anniversary of one of the most controversial writers of his era. He was born on 11 May 1912 in a middle-class Muslim family based out of Ludhiana. Manto started his career by translating short stories written in English, French, and Russian to Urdu.

Manto's stories were based on untouched subjects and his apt analysis of human behaviour, which changed the course of Urdu literature. His stories showcased the moral decay of the society and took off the masks of prejudice, hypocrisy, dishonesty and falsehood. He was sued for obscenity several times. His stories and their characters are even relevant today.

The dark world of outcasts of our society held an important place in these stories. Saadat Hasan Manto  took his readers on a voyage into the world of pimps, prostitutes, Waifs and debauchees. He shared the sorrow of this abandoned section of the society and with his extraordinary skills was able to universalise these subjects.

Manto moved to Pakistan from Bombay after the partition, which transformed him as a writer. Most of his darkest stories were written in Pakistan, where he faced a lot of criticism and legal troubles. He wrote about the violence that he witnessed at the time of partition and explained the consequences of violence on humanity, human beings, and their minds and conscience.

His storytelling was so expressive that the language and the form didn’t hold any relevance. Some of the stories forced readers to create a savage image in their mind and left them disturbed. In the story ‘Khol Do’, Sakeena was sexually assaulted numerous times, that she unties her Shalwar when her father is asked by the doctor to open the windows. Sakeena from ‘Khol Do’, can be related to many rape victims and the horror that they witness in today's times.

Communal Violence was also covered extensively in the light of partition by Manto. This threat is still prevalent over our society in the form of rifts between various sects which have affected the inter-religious peace across the nation. The story ‘Siyah Hshiay’ was written after partition, but it reflects the current scenario of our society.

Manto was vocal about social justice and advocated the equal treatment of women in our society. Ismat Chugtai quoted,” Manto picked out pearls from the jilted squalor and refuse of life.” He has been referred to as the 'undisputed father of the modern Indian short story' by Salman Rushdie.

Today, even after over six decades of his death, his work seems so modern and admissible. The characters are largely relatable with the people we come across daily. His genius lies in the fact that with each passing day his work seems more and more relevant.

[sgtechs-in]

In conversation with Nandita Das

In conversation with Nandita Das

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“1857 ke khandhar mein, Mughaliya sultanat mein; Sab peeche dekh rahe hain, jab aaj ke kaatil lahu se tareekh likh rahe hain…” Nawazuddin Siddiqui, as Saadat Hasan Manto in Nandita Das’s biographical film on the celebrated Indo-Pakistani writer, talks about how we keep blaming everything on the past — the ruins of 1857, the Mughal empire — even as newer killers keep marching on, spilling…

[rkbahuja]

Rajshri Despande is Ismat Chughtai in Nandita Das's Manto

Rajshri Despande is Ismat Chughtai in Nandita Das’s Manto

Nandita Das’s much awaited indie film Manto has signed on the Sexy Durga & Angry Indian Goddesses actor Rajshri Despande to play the legendary author Ismat Chughtai. Ismat Chughtai The shoot of the film starts this week and the casting was confirmed today after a look test of Rajshri in a signature sari, hair and spectacles to get into the garb of the eminent Indian writer. Recently, Nawazuddin…

[whatnextweb]

Lihaaf: The Quilt (2019) Movie Dual Audio [Hindi-Eng] 1080p 720p Torrent Download

Lihaaf: The Quilt (2019) Movie Dual Audio [Hindi-Eng] 1080p 720p Torrent Download

Lihaaf: The Quilt Full Movie, A period drama, the film is based on Ismat Chugtai’s most celebrated story “Lihaaf” (published 1942). The film inter weaves the plot of same sex relationship between Begum and her masseuse and the trial that Ismat underwent after being slapped with a case of obscenity on publishing the story. The film raises themes of homosexuality and freedom of speech that our…

[thevividgreenmoss]

Ismat Chugtai, The Heart Breaks Free

[bollywoodirect]

गरम_हवा - बंटवारे के दर्द में जीती एक ज़िंदा फिल्म।

[grangerousnerd]

“Lihaaf”, Ismat Chugtai

[manmehakkaur]

If I may add?

The poems of Shiv Kumar Batalvi and Harivansh Rai Bacchhan.

You know how the westerners have their Romantics? The literary elite of the partition era; Manto, Faiz, Ismat Chugtai. Idealists and dreamers of a country on the verge of a breakdown.

For all my desi film majors; the restored films of Satyajit Ray. Beauty in antiquity. The ideas of class and caste. Their warring natures and their symphony.

Adoration of the mixed architechture resulting from the Hindu period and the Mughal Era.

Finding the profound in the mundane; the winding streets of Delhi and Amritsar and Lucknow- cities built upon cities. Vendors and chaiwallahs and clockmakers setting house just beneath the ruins of the Nanakshahi bricks of yore.

Having a formal tea with your batchmates at the Taj, discussing the merits of the modern and the traditional over clinking cups of china and an assortment of sweets

Wearing a khadi saree to campus, damp hair carefully yet hapharzardly thrown down one shoulder.

Ghazals.

Catching niche plays at the Prithviraj Theatre with your friends late at night

Sitting on a windowsill, wearing a mint green sharara with a copy of Ghalib’s works in your hands, eyes slowly drifting down to the veranda.

Bengal. The beautifully typical round wire rimmed glasses, dhotis paired with tweed jackets, the works of Tagore and Nazrul Islam

Just. So much more! Desi Dark academia has such potential

Desi Dark Academia

Wears Chicken embroidery Kurtas with pants to give the perfect combination of modern and traditional

Long, long haired women who always wear a braid to keep it out of their way

Glasses. Simple glasses. Removing them makes you look like a different person. Fuck contact lenses, you say

Have read The Mahabharata, The Bhagvad Gita, The Ramayana multiple times and analysed it to the point you know it better than your grandmother.

The stories of Akbar Birbal are a vivid part of your childhood

STEM students with an intense knowledge of history

Historical monuments splayed in ALL cities with their own history and stories

Havelis with squatters living in them

Villages.

Being Bilingual since birth, sometimes even knowing three languages before you enter primary school.

Your mother sitting you down, oiling your hair on Saturdays and braiding it for you

Your mother's gold bangles, which she got from her mother and will eventually be yours.

Mehndi. Weddings and Festivals which leave but intricate Mehndi designs that linger on women's hands for a while. Or your mother putting Mehndi in her hair because fuck chemical colors.

Haldi. Haldi is everything.

Your family cures and recipes.

KADAAS. Bitter Kaadas with herbs and spices that your maa, amma/daadi or nani forces you to drink because they're good for your health

Chai is the first thing in the morning. Or the last one at night. The calm that washes over you when you're in the midst of a late night study session as you make yourself a cup of chai in the middle of the night. Quietly, because everyone else is asleep.