Pesha by Ismat Chughtai
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Pesha by Ismat Chughtai investigates the authors encounters with prostitutes. She attempts to understand their profession and how over time her understanding of them changes. Ismat Chughtai is arguably one of the most prominent, urdu language, woman writers of her time. Mainly a short story writer, she also wrote films and novels too.
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