![]() ![]() Manto’s craftsmanship as a writer was not in painting the bigger picture, rather in focusing on the smaller aspects and yet conveying a thought perfectly. A stray dog found and once adored by some of the soldiers of the Indian army, died a horrible death after they found out that it had taken food from the Pakistani soldiers from across the border too! Partition showed the dark side of blind patriotism among people who come out in the most vicious ways. ![]() Her business declines badly, and her mood gets channeled through her longing for a ‘kali salwar’. This is the story of Sultana, a small-town prostitute, who became utterly disillusioned after coming to the big city of Bombay with her pimp. This story tells the tale of Bishan Singh, a lunatic living in an asylum, whose identity wasn’t sure to even himself, but had to suffer the burden of a new nationality thrust upon him! And here are 9 partition stories by Manto, so that you remember. ![]() And maybe you need a little reminder of the cost our forefathers paid for us too. Broken by political gambles that fuelled religious fanaticism of the poor third world citizens of this land, the partition saw deaths of millions of innocent people.Īs for me, Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories of the partition will always haunt me, in my dreams and when I’m awake, reminding me of the bloodstained history of the country I call home. One of the most dreadful things that had happened to the Indian subcontinent. ![]()
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