Qurratulain Hyder is one of Urdu’s greatest fiction writers. Her published work consists of four collections of short stories, five novels and several novellas. She was a journalist, scriptwriter an
Ruth Vanita is currently professor at the University of Montana, and was founding co-editor of Manushi. She is the author of several books, including Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in
One of the leading women writers of Gujarat, when Saroj Pathak died in 1989 at the age of sixty, she had published seven collections of stories and six novels. Her columns in Samachar and Gujarat M
Chandrava Charkravarty is Professor, Department of English, West Bengal State University; her interests are the complex connections between gender construction, identity and nation-building in various
