Manto & Ashok
Saadat Hasan Manto, apart from being one of the greatest short story writers of the Urdu language, was also a …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Fahash
Fahash – indecent/ obscene/ scurrility Manto ki tehreeron mein fahashi par muqaddmah chala. Translation: There was a law suit on …
Two Kashmiris: Manto & Nehru
Did You Know – Saadat Hasan Manto was a Kashmiri, much like India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Here …
Manto Versus Mankind
Author and iconoclast, late Saadat Hasan Manto often roused controversy and—in the process—forced us to confront our own hypocrisy and …
The Star From Another Sky
Saadat Hasan Manto – the name stirs up eclectic emotions. When we discovered Manto, it was like opening a window, …
Manto on the Hindi-Urdu dispute
In typical Manto style, he commented on the Hindi-Urdu language issue, that came about because of Partition, in a metaphorical …
Hatak
The lafz of the week is Hatak which means Insult or Humiliation. Hatak is also the name of a short …
Manto aur Ghalib
Did You Know – Manto’s favorite nineteenth century poet was Mirza Ghalib; about whom Manto had once said that after …
Mehfil@Prithvi: Celebrating 100 Years of Saadat Hasan Manto
“From the jilted squalour and refuse of life, he picks out pearls. He enjoys digging in the refuse because he …
Magnum Opus – Toba Tek Singh
Saadat Hassan Manto ( May22, 1912-January18, 1955) was a short story writer of the Urdu Language. He is best known for …
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