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Manto on what happens when a city becomes a new country
What happens when the city you're familiar with suddenly becomes a new country? Manto tells us this by taking a stroll through the lanes of Lahore, a city that was India and has now become something else. #Pakistan #Muhammad Ali Jinnah #Saadat Hasan Manto #Manto'sMusings #Lloyd's Bank
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How Sadaat Hasan Manto is relevant to our times
I wanted to write today about why it is important that the non-fiction of Manto be translated as it has been in this Firstpost series, of which only six pieces remain, for the last few months. #HowThisWorks #Saadat Hasan Manto
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Partition of India: Manto on why Pak never stopped being violent
Manto thought the violent forces that had been unleashed during that period would remain in Pakistan's society, damaging it. In this piece he tells us the country would become increasingly violent unless the matter was taken up. #Partition of India #Saadat Hasan Manto #Manto'sMusings
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Manto on right questions and wrong
The fact is that the ideological state suppresses the individual through denying freedom of speech. Manto takes this aspect of Pakistan head on. #Saadat Hasan Manto #Manto'sMusings
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From pillow to pistol: Manto on the meaning of 'deterrence'
Saadat Hasan Manto lived through World War II and his most productive writing years in India were 1939-1945. This was the period where nations had converted industrial factories into armaments producing units. #World War II #Saadat Hasan Manto #Manto'sMusings
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Manto on his fifth trial for obscenity and his illness
This is the second essay Manto wrote on his fifth trial for obscenity. It was the last time the state would harass him, and he would die soon after the trial. #Saadat Hasan Manto #Manto's Musings
Wire
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The Express Tribune PakistanBirth anniversary celebrations: ‘Manto was much more than a controversial writer’
Ajoka Theatre’s play depicts the hostile reception Saadat Hassan Manto got following his migration to Pakistan. “In early ‘50s Manto predicted a close alliance between America and the Pakistani mullahs to defeat the Soviets,” said Shahid Nadeem, the writ #Pakistan
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Mumbai Theatre GuideMANTO ZINDA HAI - Preview
MANTO ZINDA HAI is a stage presentation of the biography of the famous writer Saadat Hasan Manto, written by well-known playwright and poet Dr Narendra Mohan. The story revolves around the intricate and multi-dimensional life of Manto from his early chil #
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Asian AgeA summer of classics
Be it Toba Tek Singh, Gurumukh Singh ki Wasiyat or Sahai, the stories written by Urdu short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto around the socio-political background of partition have always managed to elucidate a positive response when performed for the cit #Dario Fo #Bertolt Brecht