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Saadat Hasan Manto
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A rebellious yet human portrait of India’s bustling Bombay, as told by one of the greatest Urdu writers of the last century: Saadat Hasan Manto.
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Manto is a legendary writer from India and Pakistan, famous for his works in Urdu fiction at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in the mid-1900s. The…
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Saadat Hasan Manto was born on 11 May, 1912 in the Paproudi village of Samrala, a city in the Ludhiana district of Punjab. He completed his studies in Aligarh and…
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One of the greatest raconteurs of 20th century, Saadat Hasan Manto declares that he was forcedto write when his wife routinely demandedthat he put bread on the table for the…
Nasreen Rehman
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) needs no introduction. One of the greatest stars of Urdu literature, Manto published over twenty collections of short stories in a literary career spanning almost two…
‘The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story.’–Salman Rushdie
Originally published in 1955 as Shikari Auratein, Women of Prey is a hugely entertaining and forgotten classic containing raunchy, hilarious…
‘The greatest South Asian writer of the 20th century’ New York Times A bohemian and an iconoclast, the figure of Saadat Hasan Manto looms large over the literature of the…
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Aakar Patel
Equally, Manto treated his tryst with Bollywood with disdain and unmasked the cardboard lives of tinsel town when a horse was painted to double up for a zebra or multiple…
