About the Book: A Life in Words: Memoirs
A Life in Words, the first complete translation of IsmatChughtais celebrated
memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides adelightful account of several crucial
years of her life. Alongsidevivid descriptions of her childhood years are the
conflictedexperiences of growing up in a largeMuslim family during the
earlydecades of the twentieth century.
Chughtai is searingly honest about her fight to get an educationand the struggle
to find her own voice as a writer. The result is acompellingly readable memoir
by one of the most significant Urduwriters of all time.
About the Authors: Ismat Chughtai, M Asaduddin
Ismat Chughtai (1911-91) was Urdus most courageous