India Today: Not Happy and Gay
Hindustan Times - New Delhi, India, June 29, 2005
The wheel of time spins at a laggard pace. Decades back when acclaimed Urdu writer Ismat Chugtai penned Lihaf (The Quilt), she ruffled many feathers and her work was immediately labeled as 'feminist postcolonial canon'. The protagonists, a gay Nawab Sahib and his neglected wife Begum Jan, who finds solace in lesbianism, caused a furore in 1941 and subsequently the short story was banned on charges of obscenity.
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