“Six years after the writing of this book, my mother died. Her hope – as I mentioned at the end of the book – ‘to live to see the end of this tragic story’ was not fulfilled. The way things are going, it doesn’t seem likely that I will live to see the end of […]
Dying Nostalgia
I have always known memory becomes an act of rebellion, an act of resistance, refusing to be forgotten-but somehow today, remembering does not feel the same. In the past several days, we have witnessed nothing short of history. History has been rewritten, narratives have shifted, sides are taken, old scars have come to surface; words […]
The Dilemma of 1947 Independence
Beyond reaching the depths of the underlying dilemma of Independence, Manto’s words articulate the troubled fate of the two countries who have not truly gained Independence in their thought and conscience. What remains daunting about Manto’s words is the uncanny resemblance between the past and the present, revealing how little things have changed. Revisiting the […]