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	Saadat Hasan Manto
		Saadat was born on 11 May, 1912, as an unwelcome child of an unwanted wife in a village near Ludhiana (East Punjab).
		Saadat did try to improve his lot after his father died in 1930 -- maybe he realized the loneliness of his mother, whom he had never given a cause to hold her head high in the family.
		The major concern of Manto is the spark of life in the human being, the creative force of individuality that urges all kind of people to break free of the exterior constraints at least once and respond to the unique inner voices of their souls.
	khurramsdesk.tripod.com /manto.htm (2688 words)

	Saadat Hasan Manto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saadat Hasan Manto (Urdu: ‏‏سعادت حسن منٹو) (May 11, 1912-1955) was a Urdu short story writer of Kashmiri ancestry who was born in the Punjab.
		Saadat Hasan Manto arrived in Lahore sometime in early 1948.
		Manto and his family were among the millions of Muslims who left present-day India for the newly created Islamic nation of Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saadat_Hasan_Manto (1539 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Saadat Hasan Manto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saadat was born on 11 May, 1912, as an unwelcome child of an unwanted wife in a village near Ludhiana (East Punjab).
		Saadat and his sister Nasira received proverbial stepbrother treatment from the offspring of their father's first wife while Saadat was growing up in the streets of Amritsar.
		The major concern of Manto is the spark of life in the human being, the creative force of individuality that urges all kind of people to break free of the exterior constraints at least once and respond to the unique inner voices of their souls.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saadat-Hasan-Manto (636 words)

	Saadat Hasan Manto: A Profile
		Saadat and his sister Nasira were the offsprings of their father’s second wife, Sardar Begum, who was a widow but Hasan Manto had married her against his family’s wishes.
		Saadat did try to improve himself after his father died in 1930, may be he realized the loneliness of his mother, whom he had never given a cause to hold her head high in the family.
		Manto focussed on the spark of life in the human being, the creative force of individuality that urges all kinds of people to break free of the exterior constraints at least once and respond to the unique inner voices of their souls.
	ezinearticles.com /?Saadat-Hasan-Manto:-A-Profile&id=539619 (3617 words)

	PRIVATE VIEW
		Manto arrived in Lahore from Bombay in 1948 and as long as he lived regretted ever having left the city that he loved and where he had spent the happiest and, financially, the most creative part of his life.
		When asked why Manto was still anathema for the establishment, he replied, “Every political system, every administration, that this country has had, has used Islam to promote its own ends, used it as a trading commodity for political purposes.
		Manto’s feeling for other human beings, his belief in the equality of man, these were the most outstanding traits of his personality.”
	www.khalidhasan.net /fridaytimes/2002-11-22.htm (987 words)

	Kashmir Sentinel
		Talking about Manto, writer Anita Desai says, "he saw the relation between sex, religion and violence and was obsessed by it as well as sickened....(and) it was when his inflamed passions and emotions became tempered with a satirist's laughter and with a touch of fantasy that he reached his greatest heights".
		Manto was criticised by his contemporary writers for being obsessed with sex and peddling pornography.
		Manto would have never reacted to the partition the way he did had he not been aware of the contradictions and other complications of the Muslim mind in the sub-continent.
	www.kashmirsentinel.com /feb2003/14.html (3479 words)

	Words Without Borders -> Saadat Hasan Manto
		Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-55) was the leading Urdu short-story writer of the twentieth century.
		He was born in Samrala in the Ludhiana district of Punjab.
		During his controversial two-decade career, Manto published twenty-two collections of stories, seven collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, and a novel.
	www.wordswithoutborders.org /bio.php?author=Saadat+Hasan+Manto (81 words)

	urdustan.net : English blog for the Urdu language.: Manto set for rebirth
		Manto was as much a chronicler as a victim of the Partition.
		Manto, who began his career in All India Radio in Delhi before shifting to Mumbai to make a career as a film scriptwriter, died in Lahore exactly 50 year ago a few months shy of the age of 43.
		Although Manto spent many years working with film studios in Mumbai, not too many screen adaptations have been made of his stories.
	www.urdustan.net /2005/03/manto-set-for-rebirth.html (558 words)

	The Legacy Project: Literary Sampler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Biography: Saadat Hasan Manto was born on 11 May 1912 at Samrala in Punjab's Ludhiana district.
		Manto worked for All India Radio during World War II and was a successful screen writer in Bombay before moving to Pakistan during Partition.
		Manto's Toba Tek Singh, considered his greatest work by many, was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him.
	www.legacy-project.org /lit/display.html?ID=119 (822 words)

	Bald Angel: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan
		Manto wrote his short stories on the ‘socially forbidden and taboo’ themes with the innocence of a child.
		Hasan Askari wrote about Manto that if he “is not part of it, no literati can become a representative body in the eyes of the people”.
		Manto was finally acquitted and the bearded Judge who had tried Manto’s case, said to him later playfully, “Had I rejected your appeal, you’d have said that a bearded man did you in” (n.2).
	www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00002880&channel=university&threshold=1&layout=0&order=0&start=20&end=26&page=3&chapter=1 (3825 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article
		Manto’s daughters Nusrat Jalal, Nigha Patel and Zuzhat Arshad had given their joint consent in writing to Mushtaq Kak from Lahore to adapt their father’s short stories.
		In Pakistan, Manto was branded as smut writer for which he had to face criminal cases.
		Manto had never visited brothel house but was gallant towards women.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020317/spectrum/main10.htm (482 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Saadat (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yadollah Saadat, a 27-year-old shopkeeper, was rescued around midnight (2030 GMT on Wednesday) by Red Crescent workers who had all but given up hope of finding...
		Yadollah Saadat was found blinking and dazed underneath the rubble of a house in northern Bam.
		Yadollah Saadat was trapped under a wardrobe, which probably saved his life from falling debris, for six days with a broken hip.
	www.nametraq.org /Jan04/S/Saadat.shtml (1446 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: No one has chronicled the horrors of Partition as Saadat Hasan Manto has done (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saadat Hasan Manto wrote some of the most poignant stories on the horrors of Partition.
		Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) belonged to a middle class Kashmiri family of Amritsar.
		In all, Manto wrote over 200 stories and scores of plays and essays, the first collection of stories appearing in 1940.
	www.rediff.com /freedom/28manto.htm (688 words)

	eMarkaz.com, A Wet Afternoon: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences by Sadat Hassan Manto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SAADAT HASAN MANTO, the most widely read and the most controversial short story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Samrala in Punjab"s Ludhiana district.
		Manto"s greatest work was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him.
		KHALID HASAN, journalist, writer and translator was born in Srinagar, Kashmir, and has written over 30 books.
	www.emarkaz.com /shop/store/emarkazBookDetail.php?cname=&product_id=2657 (541 words)

	Saadat Hasan Manto's "Letters to Uncle Sam" - Sepia Mutiny
		Manto was in Bombay through the Partition (in 1948, he decided to move, with his family, to Lahore), so it’s unclear to me whether he personally knew people who had experienced this kind of violence.
		These “letters,” which Manto says he cannot send as he lacks money for postage, are opportunities for Manto to comment on the strangeness of his new country, as well as on the surreal aspects of American life as discerned from magazines and newspapers.
		But in some ways, Manto argues, the two countries may not be that far apart after all; the letters are as irreverent in their treatment of “Uncle” as they are of life in Pakistan.
	www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/003550.html (4365 words)

	Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) Men of Letters
		Saadat Hasan Manto, a great short story writer of South Asia in Urdu, was born on May 11, 1912.
		Manto completed the translation in about two weeks and sold it to the Urdu Book Stall, Lahore, which published it under the title Sarguzasht-e-Aseer (A Prisoner's Story).
		Judging from the number and variety of collections Manto had published in Delhi, this was a "golden period" indeed for him.
	www.pakpost.gov.pk /philately/stamps2005/saadat_manto.html (566 words)

	News
		Thanks to everyone who came to the reading at the Edinburgh Book Festival on August 25th.
		It was a real pleasure to meet Tabish Khair, hear him read from his new novel Filming and to find that we share an enthusiasm for the works of Saadat Hasan Manto, the greatest short story writer ever, whose epitaph reads: "Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto.
		With him lie buried all the arts and mysteries of short story writing.
	www.indrasinha.com (959 words)

	Dr. M. Asaduddin,Department of English and Modern European Languages
		Manto's realism embraces not only those external aspects of reality about which there is general consensus, but also those that are subjective and psychological and, there, tend to be more complex and varied.
		She carved a niche for herself among her contemporaries of Urdu fiction writers -- Rajinder Singh Bedi, Saadat Hasan Manto and Krishan Chander -- by introducing areas of experience not explored before.
		Delhi University on "Redefining the Canon: A Case for the Study of Manto's 'Tobatek Singh' in Historical Context", Feb 20, 1999.
	www.jmi.nic.in /FHum/masaduddin_eng.htm (4303 words)

	Indo-Iranian Languages and Literatures - 8185952485 - Life and works of Saadat Hasan Manto / edited by Alok Bhalla. - ...
		Indo-Iranian Languages and Literatures - 8185952485 - Life and works of Saadat Hasan Manto / edited by Alok Bhalla.
		Papers presented at a seminar held at Indian Institute of Advanced Study by various Hindi and Urdu authors, historians, and sociologists.
		Manòto, Sa°åadat òHasan, 1912-1955 Criticism and interpretation Congresses.
	www.pitbossannie.com /iss-pk-8185952485.html (157 words)

	Printer Friendly Version
		If this scenario seemed straight out of Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story “Toba Tek Singh”, that is no coincidence.
		We are left then with the Nowhere Policy of periodically demonising a Nowhere People, men, women and children, with plastic buckets and dented utensils, ensnarled in the barbed wire of history.
		For them the last line of Manto’s short story continues to be the perfect epitaph: In the middle, on a stretch of land which had no name, lay Toba Tek Singh.
	iecolumnists.expressindia.com /print.php?content_id=18257 (1045 words)

	Community
		The event, which fell close to the 83rd anniversary of Sahir’s birth on March 8, was attended by over 200 people and the two hours that it lasted were educational as well as entertaining for the attendees.
		He said that writers and poets are supported by their pen only when these creative artists are able to be compensated for their labor, and the market for their writing is directly dependent on the literacy level in a country.
		While Sahir moved from Lahore to Bombay, Saadat Hasan Manto moved from Bombay, where he was pursuing a successful career in writing, to Lahore to ultimately die in poverty.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Community/2005/April05/08/04.HTM (1538 words)

	»»End-of-Life Reviews«« (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saadat Hasan Manto is generally considered the greatest short story writer of the Urdu language, centered on the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent.
		Manto's characters are flawed, often capable of the most grotesque acts, and utterly believable.
		Khalid Hasan has done a wonderful job in his translations and I recommend this book to anyone looking for intelligent, brilliantly written fiction.
	www.health-issue-books.com /Emerging-Infectious-Diseases/End-of-Life/End-of-Life_7.html (1345 words)

	Saadat Hasan Manto Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saadat Hasan Manto was a storyteller who took risks.
		Born on May 11, 1912, in Samrala, India, Manto was the son of Ghulam Hasan Manto, a judge, and Sardar, a widow.
		He wrote in the Urdu language, the primary language of Muslims in Pakistan and northern India and now the official language of Pakistan, but many of his works have been translated into other languages, including English.
	www.enotes.com /dog-tithwal/24413 (162 words)

	Third Letter to Uncle Sam: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan
		Manto did not think much of him, either as a poet or a man.
		I must also thankyou for your translations of other Manto writings, 'Stars from Another Sky'...while Manto's most powerful writings are on partition, his sketches of filmstars provide a window to the Bombay of that era and how Manto saw it.
		Manto longed for Bombay, but i dont think we can equate that with a longing for India.
	www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00005100&channel=chaathouse (8693 words)

	Indiaclub.com: Urdu Books of India
		The first in the series of a 3-volume set of his complete short fiction, this anthology includes 86 short stories of Manto besides a 64-page comprehensive review of the man, a critical survey of his works, philosophy, and style.
		This volume is second in the series, and covers titles beginning with Urdu alphabet J, Ch, H, Kh, D, R, S and Sh etc and includes 93 short fiction of Manto besides a comprehensive introduction, critical survey of his works, philosophy and style.
		This final volume in a 3-series set, covers titles beginning with Urdu alphabet I, Gh, Fh, K, L, M, N, W, Q, O, V, Y etc.and includes 91 short fiction of Manto besides a comprehensive introduction, critical survey of his works, philosophy and style.
	www.indiaclub.com /shop/Urdu.asp (451 words)

	IndiaStar bookreview: The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997
		The only work written in an Indian language included in this anthology is Saadat Hasan Manto's short story "Toba Tek Singh." This story focuses on the turbulence generated by the announcement in a Lahore lunatic asylum of the upcoming transfer of Sikh and Hindu inmates to India.
		The distress of the inmates is skillfully shown by Manto and higlights the absurdity of the partition.
		This fine story along with Saadat Hasan Manto's "Toba Tek Singh" are the two most memorable short stories in this anthology, even though Satayajit Ray's "Bill" is quite engrossing too.
	www.indiastar.com /manjeet.html (858 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The people on the streets of Lahore are also very warm; they really want to revive the bond with us,” says Ganguli, who shared the dais with veteran stage actors Zohra Sehgal and her sister Uzra Butt.
		“I also had a chance to meet the daughters of Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto, on whom we are basing our next production.
		In another attempt to bring the two neighbours closer, an exhibition titled “Along the X axis: video art from India and Pakistan”, will be held at the Apeejay Media Gallery in New Delhi, on March 28 and 29.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040327/asp/calcutta/story_3049229.asp (1245 words)

	Memories Of Madness - Singh, Khushwant and Sahni, Bhisham and Manto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Based on the author's own experience of riots in Rawalpindi, this celebrated novel describes the murder and mayhem triggered off by the discovery of a pig's carcass outside a mosque.
		The matchless stories of Saadat hasan Manto, the greatest short story writer in the Urdu language, round off this collection.
		In addition to his most famous story, 'Toba Tek Singh', the selection includes ten other sketches and stories in which Manto turns his unflinching gaze on history's criminals, victims and unlikely heroes.
	www.gobookshopping.com /BookDetails.asp?bookid=17812&cateid=HBFW (264 words)

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