Ajoka theatre: Hearing and watching Saadat Hassan Manto
Birthday celebration begins with readings and clips from upcoming TV show on writer’s life.
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Manto centennial: Homage to an oft-misinterpreted writer
Literati and members of English Speaking Union gather for a reading session.
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Competing narratives of Partition violence
Sindh did not undergo“retributive genocide” & consequent total ethnic cleansing that partitioned Punjab suffered.
Manto’s Pakistan
In today's Pakistan, criminals are given a hero’s welcome and laudable writers are forgotten.
Rabbani suggests highest civil award for Manto
Paying respect to literary figures could help improve the situation in the country, says Senator Rabbani.
Ek shaam Manto ke saath – in ‘Bombay’
It was perhaps fitting that the mehfil was held in a city which the writer adopted as his own.
Short story: The odour of in-flight entertainment
Randhir reached for his bag and took out a book, 'Selected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto'.
Manto: Why I wanted to read a ‘lewd’ writer
For a young man in Haripur, Manto unlocked the door to a world of ‘unflinchingly true’ language and stories.
Manto: The unmatched craftsman who strips life of its illusions
Manto’s stories are a concave lens which sees through societal hypocrisy and reveals us to ourselves.
Manto: We will never see this modern master’s like again
Even among his envious contemporaries, Manto was recognised as a uniquely talented writer.
Reading Manto in context
Manto's writing was enthusiastically welcomed by those readers who had an interest in the process of change.
Manto, a political writer by the very virtue of his subjects
Writers, intellectuals pay tribute to the satirical writer on his centennial.
More on the unpalatable Manto
Manto's story was edited per official policy to present Hindu-Muslim riots as a one-way affair, Muslims as victims.
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