User:DEFCON5/sandbox/Kaliyan
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| Author | Ismat Chughtai |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kaliyam |
| Language | Urdu |
Publication date | 1941 |
| Publication place | British India |
| Media type |
Kaliyan (lit. 'Buds') is a collection of short stories in Urdu by Ismat Chughtai first published in 1941.
Background[edit]
Chotein was first published in 1942.[1] This was Chughtai's second collection of original short stories after Kaliyan (1941).
Content[edit]
The stories in this collection include:
- Pardey ke Peeche Se (From Behind the Curtain)
- Gainda (Gainda)
- Shaadi (Marriage)
- Jawani
- Daayan
- Khidmatgar
- Bachpan
- Taariki
- Kafir
- Neera
- uff Ye Bachche.
Themes[edit]
In Gainda, Chughtai depicts the suffering of child brides through the story of Gainda who is married as a child and becomes a widow within a year of marriage.[2]
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Asauddin 1993, p. 80.
- ^ Wadood 2016, chpt. 4.