In an era marked by shrinking spaces for dissent and free expression, the writings of Saadat Hasan Manto feel more urgent ...

He was reputed as one of the best short story tellers of the 20th century, chronicling the events during and after the partition of India in 1947. But Saadat Hassan Manto was also the most ...

Nandita Das is the renaissance woman of Indian arts. She is an award-winning film actress (“Fire”, “1947: Earth”) and writer-director (“Firaaq”), a theater playwright-director (“Between the Lines”), ...

‘Every situation has its own music,” the narrator tells us in Saadat Hasan Manto’s story “Mummy.” During his brief life—he died in 1955, from the effects of chronic alcoholism, at age 42—Manto found ...

This biopic of celebrated — and castigated — Urdu short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto is stately, but too staid for his provocative writing. “Manto” could garner support among the educated bourgeois ...

Saadat Hasan Manto was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote ...

Nandita Das is directing the biopic about writer Saadat Hasan Manto. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor HP is getting into the content business with Manto, a theatrical feature that marks the first time ...

Actress Rasika Dugal, who plays Saadat Hasan Manto's wife in the forthcoming film 'Manto', is hosting the late Urdu writer's daughters in India. Read Less 's wife in the forthcoming film 'Manto', is ...

“My stories are mirrors for society to see itself,” asserts author Saadat Hasan Manto (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), on trial for obscenity. Dramatizing Manto’s struggles as he excoriates humanity during the ...