Bombay heart, Urdu ink: A guide to reading Saadat Hasan Manto
(WorldNews Pakistan)

In 1948, Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto boarded a ship from Bombay (now Mumbai) for the newly created nation of Pakistan. His wife and daughters had already relocated, but in an essay written years later, Manto would recall that his decision to leave his favourite city behind had been sudden, provoked by the simmering tensions between Hindus and Muslims in the wake of the Indian subcontinent’s Partition. Manto would never return to the country of his birth, but on his death in Lahore in 1955 at the young age of 43, he had left behind a body of work that unflinchingly captured the horror and madness of that defining period, establishing his legacy as a bold chronicler of the Partition...