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Between Clay and Dust: Amid today’s turmoil, one novelist finds stability in dying cultures

MA Farooqi’s lead characters are remnants of a bygone era of the subcontinent.

Book review: Pakistan on the Brink - something borrowed, something blue

The book ends with the expected exhortations for Pakistan to get its act together.

Randhir reached for his bag and took out a book, 'Selected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto'.

Even among his envious contemporaries, Manto was recognised as a uniquely talented writer.

Manto’s stories are a concave lens which sees through societal hypocrisy and reveals us to ourselves.

When new books fail to move, go back to the oldies.

Present-day literati on Manto’s enduring significance.