January 18 was Manto’s 64th death anniversary and it should be noted that Manto has been experiencing something of a renaissance for quite a few years. Manto’s best short stories like ‘Toba Tek Singh’ ...

I may be a writer of obscene stories, a clown, but I am also a husband and a father. — Saadat Hasan Manto Nandita Das’s biopic focuses on the two main aspects of Manto’s life — anti-establishment ...

It was 1954 and a young Kishwar Naheed, then a 10th grader and now poet, was standing at the door of Saadat Hasan Manto’s house in Lahore. Manto — one of the greatest Urdu short story writers of all ...

Nawazuddin Siddiqui's movie Manto too begins with a story which will make you crave to know 'what next?' And then enters the man himself, just as his loving wife Rasika Dugal is reading his story out ...

It was 20 years ago that I first saw Nandita Das. She was sitting by the Arabian Sea in Thiruvananthapuram reading a book. I was there to interview her, and she seemed as calm as the waters of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Manto” could garner support among the educated bourgeois crowd in India and Pakistan who likely know the protagonist’s life and ...

It is always special when a writer meets a reader who cares. In Manto — the Nandita Das film attempting to unravel Saadat Hasan Manto, wizard of the short story — one such fan spots the writer and ...