Manto and Chughtai

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Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9353055881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Ismat Chughtai and Sadat Hasan Mantho were Urdu's most courageous and controversial writers in the twentieth century. Featuring themes such as communal violence, the Partition, sex, relationships, and more, this collection features some of their most famous short stories.

Manto and Chughtai

Manto and Chughtai PDF Author:
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9353055881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Book Description
Ismat Chughtai and Sadat Hasan Mantho were Urdu's most courageous and controversial writers in the twentieth century. Featuring themes such as communal violence, the Partition, sex, relationships, and more, this collection features some of their most famous short stories.

My Friend, My Enemy

My Friend, My Enemy PDF Author: ʻIṣmat Cug̲h̲tāʼī
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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"Essays, communal violence, literature, women, non-fiction, Lihaaf trial, Bombay, Bhopal."

Manto

Manto PDF Author: Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9788184001440
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Black Margins

Black Margins PDF Author: Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788187649403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Along with Manto s open letter to Nehru that reveals his state of mind after the Partition, this collection captures the best of Manto s literary powers. Part of the Pakistan Writers Series, which presents English translations of Urdu fiction from Pakistan, Black Margins encompasses the range of Manto s thematic and formalistic concerns.

Mottled Dawn

Mottled Dawn PDF Author: Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0143418319
Category : India-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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Manto-Saheb

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ISBN: 9789388070393
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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'Saadat Hasan Manto has a good claim to be considered the greatest South Asian writer of the 20th century... [He] incarnated the exuberance, the madness, the alcoholic delirium of his time...'--Suketu Mehta, The New York Times This remarkable anthology brings together stories about Saadat Hasan Manto, essayist, scriptwriter, and a master of the short story, by his friends, family and rivals--among others, Ismat Chughtai, Upendranath Ashk, Balwant Gargi, Krishan Chander, his daughter Nuzhat and nephew Hamid Jalal. These are accounts of grand friendships and quarrels, protracted drinking bouts, cutthroat rivalries in the world of Urdu letters, and intense engagement with issues of that turbulent age. Together, they form an unprecedented portrait of the literary and film worlds of the time, and of the great cities of Bombay, Delhi and Lahore. They also offer a glimpse of the making of a legend even as they reveal Manto as a complex man of many contradictions. A devoted husband and father, he was as comfortable at home as he was at prostitutes' quarters, seeking new material. Generous to a fault, he freely gave away his earnings and often put his family in financial jeopardy. Fiercely competitive and an outspoken critic of others' writing, he brooked no criticism of his own, at times choosing to sever ties rather than have his words tampered with. And, for much of his adult life, right until the end, Manto was an alcoholic who fiercely defended his choice to remain one. Honest, frank and personal, at times sentimental, and critical--even gossipy--at others, the pieces in Manto-Saheb constitute an unparalleled, multi-faceted biography of a genius

Angaaray

Angaaray PDF Author: Snehal Shingavi
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351186954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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First published in 1932, this slim volume of short stories created a firestorm of public outrage for its bold attack on the hypocrisy of conservative Islam and British colonialism. Inspired by British modernists like Woolf and Joyce as well as the Indian independence movement, the four young trailblazers who penned this collection were eager to revolutionize Urdu literature. Instead, they invited the wrath of the establishment: the book was burned in protest and then banned by the British authorities. Nevertheless, Angaaray spawned a new generation of Urdu writers and gave birth to the Progressive Writers' Association, whose members included, among others, stalwarts like Chughtai, Manto, Premchand and Faiz. This edition also provides a compelling account of the furore surrounding this explosive collection.

Paper Attire

Paper Attire PDF Author: ʻIṣmat Cug̲h̲tāʼī
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199403554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Autobiography of an Urdu writer.

A Very Strange Man

A Very Strange Man PDF Author: ʻIṣmat Cug̲h̲tāʼī
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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This novel set in the Bombay Film World of the 1940s and 50s is the riveting story of Dharam Dev the famous actor director and producer and his all consuming and doomed passion for Zarina Jamal the young dancer from Madras whom he brings to Bombay and transforms into a great actress. He looks on in anguish as his betrayed wife Mangala a well-known playback singer sinks slowly into alcoholism. When Zarina abandons him he is overwrought and dies of an overdose friendless and alone. In an interview for the Journal Mehfil in 1972 Ismat Chughtai described this novel about the Bombay Film Industry as based on the life of a film producer who committed suicide after the dancer whom he had made into a big star left him in the lurch. This is not only a close personal look at an actor's rise to fame and glory but an insightful and critical examination of the Bombay film scene of the time by one who knew it at first hand. This irreverent sharply observed narrative is Vintage Chughtai.

The Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories

The Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories PDF Author: Mohammad Asaduddin
Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Though Barely A Hundred Years Old, The Urdu Short Story, Or Afsana', Has Established Itself At The Forefront Of Urdu Literature. Emerging As A Discrete Narrative Genre With Munshi Premchand, It Gained Momentum With The Progressive Writers' Movement In The 1930S. The Partition Of The Subcontinent In 1947 Introduced New Dynamics Into The Genre As Writers Grappled With Emerging Trends Of Modernism And Symbolism As Well As With A Depleted Readership In India And The Challenge Of Establishing A New Literary Tradition Commensurate With A New Nationhood In Pakistan. The Penguin Book Of Classic Urdu Stories Brings Together Sixteen Memorable Tales That Have Influenced Generations Of Readers. From Saadat Hasan Manto'S Immortal Partition Narrative Toba Tek Singh' And The Harrowing Realism Of Premchand'S The Shroud' To The Whimsical Strains Of Qurratulain Hyder'S Confessions Of St Flora Of Georgia' And The Daring Experimentation Of Khalida Husain'S Millipede', This Definitive Collection Represents The Best Of Short Fiction In Urdu. In The Process, It Provides A Glimpse Of The Works Of Acclaimed Masters On Both Sides Of The Border Ismat Chughtai And Ashfaq Ahmad, Rajinder Singh Bedi And Intizar Husain, Krishan Chander And Hasan Manzar, Naiyer Masud And Ikramullah.