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By: ‘Manto will never die’ | Reviving Hope

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By: shayma

shayma — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:59:51 +0000

an excellent write-up. i have only recently come across your blog and am happy to have stumbled upon in. i love Manto- my fave story by him is the one in which he writes about a dirty bathroom- it was from his short story collection. i have also read his stories in Italian (translations, obviously) and shared them with my friends and colleagues in Rome. best wishes, shayma

By: Abdullah Khan

Abdullah Khan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:02:36 +0000

Lovely piece.

By: Geetali

Geetali — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:44:34 +0000

Thank you, Raza for this expcellent piece on an author who mercilessly exposed the underbelly of our society. Even today, many readers are shocked by his turn of phrase, little realising that this is no exaggeration on Manto’s part, but indeed the way a section of society speaks. For me, his best story ever is “Toba Tek Singh” which is a bitter, yet immeasurably moving, commentary on the issue of what we call ”homeland”.
Naseeruddin Shah staged the wonderful play “Ismat Manto Haazir Hon” at NCPA in Bombay a few years ago. This play (not sure who is the author) brings out the irony of censorship, the question of a writer’s intellectual integrity and gently hints at that amazing, if slightly tempestuous relationship shared by Manto & Ismat Chughtai.

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