I first read Saadat Hasan Manto as a teenager and the spirit of what I’m writing now was etched on my memory in those years. I was too young to understand the intricacies of his stories but I enjoyed ...

We already know Nawazuddin Siddiqui is leaving no stone unturned to essay the role of Saadat Hasan Manto – and as a result, his look as the late Pakistani writer is just spot on. Nandita Das’ ...

January 18 was Manto’s 64th death anniversary and it should be noted that Manto has been experiencing something of a renaissance for quite a few years. Manto’s best short stories like ‘Toba Tek Singh’ ...

A six-volume compilation on Manto is rich with essays on his work The fascination with Sadat Hasan Manto is endless. A few years ago on his 100th birth anniversary a lot of books were published on ...

“Here lies buried Saadat Hasan Manto in whose bosom are enshrined all the secrets and art of short story writing. Buried under mounds of earth, even now he is contemplating whether he is a greater ...

Conceived and performed by Ashwath Bhatt, Ek Mulaqat Manto Se is a solo act that reflects on the good, the bad and the controversial life and time of writer Saadat Hasan Manto. Bhatt, who has been ...

Nawazuddin Siddiqui's movie Manto too begins with a story which will make you crave to know 'what next?' And then enters the man himself, just as his loving wife Rasika Dugal is reading his story out ...

Religious intolerance, censorship, the struggle of artists to ply their trade, the crushing of the individual soul by forces too large to combat – just as it is now, it was all happening in the 1940s, ...

"Jaane woh kaise log the jinke pyar ko pyar mila..." Echoing the disenchantment of a post-Nehruvian generation trapped between Partition and modernisation, Guru Dutt in "Pyaasa" epitomised the poet's ...

(L-R) Niranjan Iyengar, Nandita Das and Amitav Ghosh with copies of 'Manto & I' on stage at the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet, in association with The Telegraph and Victoria Memorial Hall on ...

Nawazuddin Siddiqui's movie Manto too begins with a story which will make you crave to know 'what next?' And then enters the man himself, just as his loving wife Rasika Dugal is reading his story out ...