TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chughtai, Ismat 
AU  - M. Asaduddin
TI  - Lifting the veil Selected Writing
T2  -  Penguin modern classics
SN  - 9780143066453
U1  - 181.45  
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Haryana: 
PB  - Penguin Random House, 
KW  - Urdu literature
N1  - Introduction
1.	Gainda
2.	The Quilt
3.	The Wedding Suit
4.	Kafir
5.	Childhood
6.	The Net
7.	The Homemaker
8.	Touch-me-not
9.	Quit India
10.	The Survior
11.	Sacred Dulty
12.	Tiny’s Duty
13.	Vocation All Alone
14.	The Invalid
15.	Mother-in-law
16.	Roots
17.	Hell-bound
18.	My Friend, My Enemy!
19.	In the Name of Those Married Women…

N2  - At a time when writing by and about women was rare and tentative, Chughtai explored female sexuality with unparalleled frankness and examined the political and social mores of her time. She wrote about the world that she knew, bringing the idiom of the middle class to Urdu prose, and totally transformed the complexion of Urdu fiction. Lifting the Veil brings together Ismat Chughtai s fiction and non-fiction writing. The twenty-one pieces in this selection are Chughtai at her best, marked by her brilliant turn of phrase, scintillating dialogue and wry humour, her characteristic irreverence, wit and eye for detail. ---provided by publisher
ER  -