Getting to know Manto on November 6, 2014In recent years, the work of Saadat Hasan Manto, short story writer, journalist, playwright and essayist, has seen a revival in Pakistan. Long proscribed for supposed obscenity, Manto’s work is today being re-evaluated as an honest, poetic and uniquely candid body of work describing life in pre-partition India with a visceral wit and pathos that […]