The Quilt of Silence: Enforced Heteronormativity, Emotional Deprivation, and the Human Cost of Repression in Ismat Chughtai’s Lihaaf
Ishmat chughtai’s 1942 short story Lihaaf (the quilt) has been celebrated and strongly debated for its natural depiction of alternative female desires. However, traditional literature works often treat female sexual intimacy as an isolated phenomenon, separate from the wide framework of domestic household. This paper u...