Obsession & Wild Pigeons (Paperback or Softback)

'Ismat Chughtai' (1915-1991) was born in Badayun and is counted among the earliest and foremost women Urdu writers. She focused on women's issues with a directness and intensity unparalleled in Indian literature among writers of her generation. She is the author of several collections of short stories, novellas, a novel, 'Terhi Lakir' (The Crooked Line), a collection of reminiscences and essays, 'My Friend, My Enemy', and a memoir, 'Kaghazi Hai Perahan' (The Paper-thin Garment). With her husband, Shahid Latif, a film director, she produced and co-directed six Hindustani films, and produced a further six, independently, after his death.

'TAHIRA NAQVI', a translator of Urdu fiction and prose, taught English for twenty years, and has taught Urdu at Columbia, and now heads the Urdu programme at New York University. She has translated Ismat Chughtai's short stories, her novel and her essays. She has also translated the works of Khadija Mastur, Sa'dat Hasan Manto and Munshi Premchand. Naqvi also writes fiction in English. She has published two collections of short fiction, 'Attar of Roses and Other Stories of Pakistan' and 'Dying in a Strange Country'. Her short stories have been widely anthologized.