Shama Afroz Zaidi: Apa, can you shed some light on your early years? Where did you receive your education? Tell me some interesting stories about your student days. Ismat Chughtai: Well, my mother was ...

Motley and Ismat Chughtai go long back. In 2000, when the theatre group co-founded by Naseeruddin Shah made its foray into Hindustani, it chose to do so by weaving together three stories by the ...

Bringing the stories of Ismat Chughtai to life, the Hyderabad-based theatre group Sutradhar, recently enacted and staged two of her narratives at Lamakaan. HYDERABAD: Ismat Chughtai, an illustrious ...

KARACHI: Eminent critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered a lecture on ‘Ismat Chughtai — The First Rebel in Urdu Fiction’ at the Arts Council of Pakistan on Saturday evening. The topic that the council had ...

The idea of Kaagaz ke Gubbare was born out of dramatised readings of Ismat Chughtai’s works. I began to explore her writings and see where it would take me, as opposed to having a definite idea of the ...

Nandita Das’s second directorial, the Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer Manto, has found its Ismat Chughtai in actress Rajshri Deshpande, who was previously seen in Angry Indian Goddesses. Nandita Das’s ...

Two theater entries in the Kennedy Center's "Maximum India" festival blew extremely hot and cold over the weekend. The Chorus Repertory Theatre offered a furnace-blast take on Henrik Ibsen's "When We ...