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THE THREE INNOCENTS,
& ORS. CHUGHTAI ON CHILDHOOD
Ismat Chughtai
Translated from the original Urdu by Tahira Naqvi
Rs 300 Pb 2017 pp. 150
978-93-85606-08-3
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This delightful anthology offers a rare glimpse into a less known aspect of Chughtai's writing-the warmth, humour and affection with which she writes on childhood. Shedding all the certainties of an adult she steps into a child's shoes and presents her readers with scrapes, situations and sentiments that are refreshing in their candour.
As she says to three innocents in her title story, "The pranks you engage in today are no different from the ones we played yesterday... So what advice can I give you? Actually, I look upon you as very interesting advice meant for me!" This is Chughtai at her charming best!
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ISMAT CHUGHTAI
CHUGHTAI is the author of several collections of short stories, four novellas, three novels, a collection of reminiscences and essays and a memoir, Kaghazi hai Perahan (The Paper-thin Garment). With her husband, Shahid Latif, a film director, she produced and co-directed six films, and produced a further six independently.
Translator Bio:
TAHIRA NAQVI
is a translator, write, and Urdu language lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. She has translated the works of Sa'dat Hasan Manto, Munshi Premchand, Khadija Mastur and Ismat Chughtai into English. |
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