She wrote extensively, exploring the themes of female sexuality and femininity, and became one of the grandest names in Urdu prose. ISMAT CHUGHTAI (1915-1991) CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO READ THE SELECTED STORIES OF ISMAT CHUGHTAIįamously known as the ‘Great Dame’ of Urdu literature, Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer and filmmaker. Jo ahl-e-jubba ki tamkanat se na raub khaaen Jo bol sakti thiin vo zabanen kaTi mile hain Har ek dahliz pe sazaon ki dastanen rakhi mile hain Jo ahl-e-jubba ki tamkanat se na raub khaen Her voice has gained in gravity and determination over the period of time. She is also a proponent of peace and advocates global political order. In her compositions, she celebrates the universal human struggle for equality, justice and freedom. Kishwar Naheed is widely acclaimed for her fierce and uncompromising poetic expression against extremism, violence and atrocities faced by women in the male-dominated society. She is one of the contemporary champions of the gender-inequality cause apparent in the five published volumes of her poetry and a memoir.Īur is duniya ko apni hatheli par rakh karĪpne bachchon ko aakhiri baar ghiza faraham kar duun She wrote a long, feminist, stream-of-consciousness prose poem- ‘Neend ki Masaafaten’ which was published in 1981. She was born in Karachi and obtained a master’s degree in Urdu from Karachi University itself. Poet and fiction writer, Azra Abbas is one of the most prominent women poets writing in Urdu. Khelne vaale sab hathon ko main gudiya hi lagti huun While the classicism in her ghazals is a luminous display of her excellent craftsmanship, the thunderous quietude in her nazms is the roar of her identity as a woman.
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Her free verses/nazms are very sharp in targeting at the ills of society and bold in thrashing the patriarchal structure. Maintaining the classical fervor of Urdu Ghazal, she was the first poet who started using ‘feminine syntax’ in her poetry. In her poetry, love and feminism are the most prominent amongst the various subjects she wrote on. Starting at a very early age, Parveen Shakir managed to establish herself in Urdu literature like almost no other female ghazal poet. PARVEEN SHAKIR (1952-1994) PARVEEN SHAKIR Us ko maaloom hai shayad na sahar ho paae Jis ke kheme se pare raat ki taareki meinĭuur se aati hai jab us ki lahu ki ḳhushbuĭil ke bahlane ko shayad ye khayal aate hain Tum ne dekhi hai kabhi ek zan-e-khana-ba-dosh Fahmida Riaz authored several books like Pathar ki Zaban, Godaavari, Khatt-e Marmuz, Khana e Aab O Gil, Dhoop, Badan Darida, Karachi, Adhoora Aadmi etc. Her magazine ‘Awaaz’ was banned for projecting a revolutionary vision which brought her an exile of seven years. She had to face several social challenges for using erotica and sensuality in ‘Badan Dareeda’, a collection of her verse. Her works express female sentiments without any reluctance or discomfort. She strongly believed in freedom of expression. The author and activist who wrote extensively and strongly over gender inequality, men and women struggling against the imposed morality of the bourgeois class and class conflict. We mention here some names and their works that championed the cause of Feminism in Urdu literature. The female voices rose to break free of the four-walls behind which they had always remained unheard in a strongly patriarchal society. In the latter half of twentieth century, the world was hit by a Feminist storm and rightly so.