Writer-director Nandita Das’ second feature film, Manto, was picked by the Cannes International Film to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section in 2018, an honour that very few Indian films have ...

In this exclusive first excerpt from Manto & I by Nandita Das, the author says her 2018 biopic on the great short story writer grew out of her admiration for Manto’s free spirit and his courage to ...

The speakers at LLF examined the genius of Manto and why the writer still antagonises people in the current era The much-awaited seventh edition of Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) began last Friday at ...

Black Margins or Siyah Hashiye is one of Saadat Hasan Manto’s most searing compilations, and it contains terse prose pieces in Urdu, some only a few lines long, that capture, in just a breath or a ...

It is always special when a writer meets a reader who cares. In Manto — the Nandita Das film attempting to unravel Saadat Hasan Manto, wizard of the short story — one such fan spots the writer and ...

Like Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray, those other two giants of 20th century arts, Saadat Hasan Manto has become a 21st century cottage industry. Not a year goes by without a new Manto ...

Olomopolo arranged a screening of the Pakistani film ‘Manto’ produced in 2015. The film stars actor Sarmad Sultan Khoosat as Manto and Sania Saeed as Safiya Manto. The film doesn’t have a linear ...

This biopic of celebrated — and castigated — Urdu short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto is stately, but too staid for his provocative writing. “Manto” could garner support among the educated bourgeois ...

Indian actress and filmmaker Nandita Das' second feature, 'Manto,' brings the violent stories of controversial author Saadat Hasan Manto to life. By Deborah Young For those unfamiliar with ...

Perhaps no other Urdu fiction writer has been translated as frequently into English as Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) has been. This great degree of interest in Manto is by no means purely literary — ...

We are entering the last quarter of Saadat Hasan Manto’s centenary year, and we finally have a new, accessible paperback edition of Aatish Taseer’s translations of 12 Manto short stories into English, ...

May 11, 2012 marks Sadat Hasan Manto's birth centenary. To Celebrate the occasion Books&Authors invited some of the most well-known names of Urdu literature to share their thoughts on a writer Zaheda ...