Earlier during his stay in India, he had written the film story for an award-winning Indian Movie Mirza Ghalib (1954) and then his original short story 'Jhumke' was adapted for Pakistani hit film Badnam (1996). He is known as the most controversial short story writer in Urdu Language.
Government of Pakistan issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring him in 2005. In 2012, President of Pakistan awarded him Nishan-E-Imtiaz (Distinguished Service to Pakistan Award). When Manto died on January 18, 1995, at age 42, thousands of people in Lahore walked in his funeral procession, a rare tribute which the public pays to a writer.
Introducing Saadat Hasan Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto was born in a village near Ludhiana. He has a wife and 3 daughters to support and lived the last years of his life in Lahore, Pakistan. During his lifetime, Saadat Hasan Manto was charged with obscenity six times in India and Pakistan for his writings, which was considered obscene, he said, "If you can not bear these stories then the society is unbearable." Manto was prolific Indo-Pakistani writer who published 22 short stories collections and other writings during his career.
Manto often wrote about societal issues that he felt hindered humanity. This lesson touches on his life and major works that make him memorable.
Early Life & Migration of Saadat Hasan Manto
It was the greatest mass movement of humanity in history. In the days and months leading up to the partitioning of India in August 1947, 14 million people moved and two million died as the new nation of Pakistan was created. The borderline was arbitrary and artificial - established in haste by a British barrister called Sir Cyril Radcliffe and in trying to slice India along religious lines, it turned former Muslim, Hindu and Sikh friends and neighbors against each other.
The partition was brutal and bloody, and to Saadat Hasan Manto, a Muslim journalist, short story author and Indian film screenwriter living Bombay, it appeared maddeningly senseless. Manto was already an established writer before August, 1947, but the stories he would go on to write about partition would come to cements his reputation. Though his working life was cut short by an addiction to alcohol, leading to his death at 43, Manto produced 20 collections of short stories, five collections of radio dramas, three of essays, two of sketches, one novel and a clutch of films scripts.
Government of Pakistan issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring him in 2005. In 2012, President of Pakistan awarded him Nishan-E-Imtiaz (Distinguished Service to Pakistan Award). When Manto died on January 18, 1995, at age 42, thousands of people in Lahore walked in his funeral procession, a rare tribute which the public pays to a writer.
Introducing Saadat Hasan Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto was born in a village near Ludhiana. He has a wife and 3 daughters to support and lived the last years of his life in Lahore, Pakistan. During his lifetime, Saadat Hasan Manto was charged with obscenity six times in India and Pakistan for his writings, which was considered obscene, he said, "If you can not bear these stories then the society is unbearable." Manto was prolific Indo-Pakistani writer who published 22 short stories collections and other writings during his career.
Manto often wrote about societal issues that he felt hindered humanity. This lesson touches on his life and major works that make him memorable.
Early Life & Migration of Saadat Hasan Manto
It was the greatest mass movement of humanity in history. In the days and months leading up to the partitioning of India in August 1947, 14 million people moved and two million died as the new nation of Pakistan was created. The borderline was arbitrary and artificial - established in haste by a British barrister called Sir Cyril Radcliffe and in trying to slice India along religious lines, it turned former Muslim, Hindu and Sikh friends and neighbors against each other.
The partition was brutal and bloody, and to Saadat Hasan Manto, a Muslim journalist, short story author and Indian film screenwriter living Bombay, it appeared maddeningly senseless. Manto was already an established writer before August, 1947, but the stories he would go on to write about partition would come to cements his reputation. Though his working life was cut short by an addiction to alcohol, leading to his death at 43, Manto produced 20 collections of short stories, five collections of radio dramas, three of essays, two of sketches, one novel and a clutch of films scripts.
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