{"id":1821,"date":"2021-01-18T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2021-01-18T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:19:14","slug":"mantos-66th-death-anniversary-late-writers-day-goes-largely-unnoticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/01\/18\/mantos-66th-death-anniversary-late-writers-day-goes-largely-unnoticed\/","title":{"rendered":"Manto&#8217;s 66th death anniversary; Late writer&#8217;s day goes largely unnoticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great\u00a0urdu\u00a0language short story writer of the South\u00a0Asia\u00a0Saadat Hasan Manto was remembered on Monday on his 66th death anniversary to pay tributes for his lifetime services to Urdu literature.<\/p>\n<p>Born on\u00a0May\u00a011, 1912 in\u00a0Ludhiana,\u00a0India, Manto was a play-writer and author who produced some collections of short stories, a novel, radio plays, essays and collections of personal sketches.<\/p>\n<p>He was known for controversial writing of short stories which exposed the hard truths of the society that no one dared to talk about, private channels reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Remembering Manto on this day. Saadat Hasan died at 42 but Manto lives on. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MantoSpeaks_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MantoSpeaks_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nawazuddin_S?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Nawazuddin_S<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RasikaDugal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RasikaDugal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Manto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Manto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PgcprmmLXP\">pic.twitter.com\/PgcprmmLXP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nandita Das (@nanditadas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nanditadas\/status\/1351029055466987520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nManto is\u00a0best\u00a0known for his stories about the partition of\u00a0India, which he opposed, immediately following\u00a0independence\u00a0in 1947. He is acknowledged as one of the finest 20th\u00a0century\u00a0Urdu writers and two biographical\u00a0films\u00a0on Manto have been produced so far.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Saadat Hasan Manto\u2019s understanding of society translated into a narrative of psychoanalytical portraits that often described the divided selves borne out of Partition.<\/p>\n<p>On the author&#8217;s 65th death anniversary, read this profile by Deeksha Bhardwaj<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bwbIK7Hm8B\">https:\/\/t.co\/bwbIK7Hm8B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ThePrintIndia (@ThePrintIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePrintIndia\/status\/1351030540728733706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nHis most famous short stories were &#8220;Khool Do, Kaali Shalwar and\u00a0Toba Tek Singh\u00a0among many others.<\/p>\n<p>During this time\u00a0Bari\u00a0enthusiastically discovered Hugo&#8217;s &#8216;The Last Days of Condemned, a drama expression\u00a0opposition\u00a0to capital punishment, and he encouraged Manto to attempt a translation of it into Urdu.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tributes to the celebrated Novelist\/Short story teller in Indian Sub-continent Saadat Hasan Manto on death anniversary<br \/>\nNawazuddin Siddiqui in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Manto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Manto<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nanditadas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nanditadas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RjGiQBvdcl\">pic.twitter.com\/RjGiQBvdcl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Movies N Memories (@BombayBasanti) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BombayBasanti\/status\/1351021278560473091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nManto completed the translation in about two weeks and sold it to the Urdu Book Stall,\u00a0Lahore, which published it under the title Sarguzasht-e-Aseer (A\u00a0Prisoner&#8217;s Story).<\/p>\n<p>Having now become a published author, Manto aided by Hasan Abbas soon attempted a translation of\u00a0Oscar\u00a0Wilde&#8217;s\u00a0Vera, which was published in 1934.<\/p>\n<p>Later, his story &#8220;Tamasha&#8221; and several others were put together into Manto&#8217;s first collection of original short stories in Urdu, Atish Pare (Sparks; also Quarrel-Provokers), published in 1936. Later he came to\u00a0Lahore\u00a0and joined newspaper Paras.He\u00a0died\u00a0on\u00a0January\u00a018, 1955, at the age of 44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great\u00a0urdu\u00a0language short story writer of the South\u00a0Asia\u00a0Saadat Hasan Manto was remembered on Monday on his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Manto&#039;s 66th death anniversary; Late writer&#039;s day goes largely unnoticed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Great\u00a0urdu\u00a0language short story writer of the South\u00a0Asia\u00a0Saadat Hasan Manto was remembered on Monday on his 66th death\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/01\/18\/mantos-66th-death-anniversary-late-writers-day-goes-largely-unnoticed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manto&#039;s 66th death anniversary; 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