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i A fiery and controversial writer, Ismat Chughtai appeared on the Urdu literary scene during the heyday of the Progressive Writers? Movement. Considered the subcontinent?s foremost feminist writer, she was always instinctively aware of the double standards that governed the position of women in the largely feudal and patriarchal society of the time. She did everything in her power to expose and subvert it.

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