Manto: The Greatest Stories | English Translation

SAADAT HASAN MANTO'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL STORIES APPEAR IN THIS COLLECTION EDITED BY ARUNAVA SINHA. Sa’adat Hasan Manto is the most widely read and controversial essayist, satirist, playwright and short story writer in the Urdu language. He published twenty-two collections of short stories. He is best known for his stories about the partition of India, which he opposed vehemently. Manto was tried six times for alleged obscenity in his writings; thrice before 1947 in British India, and thrice after independence in 1947 in Pakistan, but was never convicted. In this collection we present some of his most iconic short stories, including ‘Khol Do’, ‘Shah Dule Ka Chooha’, ‘Bu’, ‘Dus Rupaye’, ‘Thanda Gosht’ and ‘Naya Qanoon’, selected by award-winning translator Arunava Sinha and translated by various young and promising translators mentored by him.