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Saadat Hasan Manto
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‘Finally, the day of judgement arrived. Bibijan moved in with me’: Manto on getting married
An excerpt from the essay ‘My Marriage’, from The Collected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto: Volume I,’ translated from the Urdu by Nasreen Rehman.
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The Art of Resistance: Saadat Hasan Manto’s haunting short story on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
‘An Incident from 1919’: The protest and the mass killing that followed, seen through the imagination of one man.
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‘An Incident from 1919’: Saadat Hasan Manto’s haunting short story on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place 100 years ago on this day, April 13. This story by Manto reveals the depth of the tragedy through one man’s death.
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Trending
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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‘Juna Furniture’ review: A simplistic crusade against the neglect of senior citizens
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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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‘The Last Salute’: Saadat Hasan Manto’s story of a battle in Kashmir asks again why wars are fought
‘As he took aim to shoot and a familiar face appeared on the opposite side, he forgot for a moment why they were fighting, why he had lifted his gun and aimed.’
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‘Who do we have now?’: Saadat Hasan Manto’s little-known tribute after Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s death
On Jinnah’s 70th death anniversary on September 11, a translation of Manto’s tribute, first published in the Urdu newspaper ‘Daily Imroze’, by Raza Naeem.
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‘Gunshot’: This inimitable story by Manto is a poignant reminder of life with a disability
On the International Day of Disabled Persons, read this classic, uncompromising short story by Saadat Hasan Manto.
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Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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Manto on the man who was irresistible to women, and took full advantage of it
One of Saadat Hasan Manto’s unputdownable portraits of his real-life friends.
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Manto on the short story writer and matters of sex
“Bread and stomach, man and woman – these are correlations that go back to the beginning of time. Eternal.”
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On Manto’s birth anniversary, a story from his life in a Bombay chawl: ‘Peerun’
Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Bombay Stories’ are devastating portraits of the working class crammed into tenement houses.
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The Reel
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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‘Juna Furniture’ review: A simplistic crusade against the neglect of senior citizens
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‘Late Night with the Devil’ review: A deft satire on the price of success
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Watch: In ‘The Big Cigar’, the Black Panther founder flees America through a fake movie
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ review: A feelgood entertainer about young love and old ties