Pragya tiwari biography sample

To read Ismat Chughtai is to give in to a peculiar and mighty joy that rises from the wellspring of the examined life. Her biography A Life In Words, translated most naturally and effectively by M.

Asaduddin from a collection of essays in Urdu, reads rather disjointedly. It does not sequentially narrate what would be considered the main events of her life, and even though the translator is apologetic about this in his introduction, it might be the best thing about the book.

 

Ismat’s account of her life follows the dream-like pattern of our own reveries- where memories play in random order linked inexplicably through feelings, songs, smells and colours.

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We get an impressionistic picture of her world- a form she used perhaps more consciously while writing her short stories. But then fact and fiction are inseparable in Ismat’s context. She wrote like she lived- impulsively, rebelliously, joyously- questioning the order of things, honing her intellect and submitting to her insat