The pity of partition Manto's life, times, and work across the India-Pakistan divide
"Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowled...
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude: Manto and Partition
- I. Stories
- "Knives, Daggers, and Bullets Cannot Destroy Religion"
- Amritsar Dreams of Revolution
- Bombay : Challenges and Opportunities
- II. Memories
- Remembering Partition
- From Cinema City to Conquering Air Waves
- Living and Walking Bombay
- III. Histories
- Partition : Neither End nor Beginning
- On the Postcolonial Moment
- Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War
- Epilogue: "A Nail's Debt" : Manto Lives On ...
