“The Vegetarian” has become a cult international bestseller since it first appeared on shelves in 2007. Publication rights have been sold in nearly 20 countries and it was adapted into a Korean film that played at Sundance in 2010.
Any study on Urdu short stories, feminism in South-East Asia and progressive ideology in Urdu literature is incomplete without taking into account the works of Ismat Chughtai.
With the aim to showcase fair and untanned skin, black and mixed race redheads, the annual calendar is created by London-based photographer Thomas Knights.