Soon, “Lihaaf” acquired an iconic status and she was hailed as the first bold, feminist short story writer in Urdu. By the time she married Shahid Latif, four years her junior, in 1942, she had already established herself as a trailblazer in Urdu fiction. They were Qurratulain Hyder (Anny Aapa) and Ismat Chughtai (Ismat Aapa) and both wrote unforgettable pieces on each other. Sukrita Paul Kumar and Amitesh Kumar have shown remarkable editorial wisdom by including both these pieces in “Ismat Aapa”. The editors have taken considerable pains to prepare a family tree of Ismat Chughtai and offer detailed information about the sources material used in the book.

Source: The Hindu January 20, 2017 16:51 UTC