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He has edited newspapers in English and Gujarati for the Dainik Bhaskar Group and for the Mid Day Group, where he also oversaw the Urdu daily, Inquilab.  \nHe writes columns for the Mint Lounge and Express Tribune, published from Pakistan.  \nTRANQUEBAR PRESS  \nAn imprint of westland ltd  \n6 1 Silverline Building, 2nd Floor, Alapakkam Main Road, Maduravoyal, Chennai 6000 095 No. 38/ 10 (New No.5 ) , Raghava Nagar, New Timber Yard Layout, Bangalore 560 026  \n93, 1 st Floor, Sham Lal Road, New Delhi 1 10 002  \nFirst published in English by TRANQUEBAR, an imprint of westland ltd 2014  \nCopyright © Nusrat Jalal 2014  \nTranslated from the Urdu by Aakar Patel 2014  \nThis translation © Aakar Patel 2014  \nFirst e-book edition: 2014  \nAll rights reserved  \nISBN: 978-93-84030-18-6  \nTypeset by Ram Das Lal  \nThis book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, circulated, and no reproduction in any form, in whole or in part (except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews) may be made without written permission of the  \npublishers.  \nContents  \nIntroduction  \nWhy I Write  \nThe Story of My Wedding  \nHindi or Urdu?  \nThirteen Types of Freeloaders  \nHow Arms Control Works  \nBeautiful Girls will be Harassed  \nOur Progressive Graveyards  \nSave India from its Leaders  \nThe Guilty Men of Bombay  \nBombay in the Riots  \nBombay During Partition  \nA Stroll Through the New Pakistan  \nIqbal Day  \nA Question is Produced  \nNews of a Killing  \nGod is Gracious in Pakistan  \nMy Fifth Trial (Part I)  \nMy Fifth Trial (Part II)  \nThe Background  \nThe Great Pothole Mystery  \nFirecrackers  \nWhy I Can’t Stand Bollywood  \nVirtuous Women in Cinema  \nA Review of Saigal’s Zindagi  \nWhat Bollywood Must Do  \nIntroduction  \nWhy Read Saadat Hasan Manto?  \nSaadat Hasan Manto was an Indian trapped in Pakistan. This was his misfortune, and it was ours too. His identity didn’t come from religion and it came only partially from geography. It came mainly from his belonging to our culture, about which he wrote with great skill.  \nHe reluctantly fled his beloved Bombay at Partition, complaining all the time against M A Jinnah’s stupidity, but worried for the safety of his three little girls. His observations of Mahim and Bhendi Bazaar, while the city was at its most violent, have been reproduced in these pieces. We can no more blame him for going than we can our grandfathers for staying.  \nManto was not particularly educated, and had dropped out of Aligarh Muslim University after being an indifferent student. From a migrant Kashmiri family, he lived in Amritsar in those days, and came to Bombay after his father’s death to make a career as a journalist. Sleeping in the office of the paper he worked for, he got occasional work writing scripts for Bollywood (which wasn’t known by that name then) .  \nAs a writer of films, he was not very good. Certainly he was not successful. There are no great hits to his name, and in fact the big-budget movie that he wrote on debut was, he tells us, a flop. However, his charisma attracted some of film industry’s most powerful people, such as Ashok Kumar, to him. While only in his twenties when he was a junior writer, many of them attended his wedding in Mahim. Legends connected to the industry, such as the journalist Baburao Patel, were fond of Manto and helped him along in his career possibly because they suspected he had a hidden talent.  \nThis talent was for producing his magical short stories. It made him the  \nMaupassant of India. The liberal environment of British Bombay and its mixing of many cultures produced the fertile material that Manto needed for his writing, particularly his short fiction, but also his essays. His outstanding skill was for grasping Indianness. Stories like Bu, about aman in a flat who seduces a peasant woman and is intoxicated by the aroma of her armpit, re","cbCaitDXbYH1CsEQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitDXbYH1CsEQ","pdf",748045,133,"English","# Contents\n## Introduction\n## Why I Write\n## The Story of My Wedding\n## Hindi or Urdu?\n## Thirteen Types of Freeloaders\n## How Arms Control Works\n## Beautiful Girls will be Harassed\n## Our Progressive Graveyards\n## Save India from its Leaders\n## The Guilty Men of Bombay\n## Bombay in the Riots\n## Bombay During Partition\n## A Stroll Through the New Pakistan\n## Iqbal Day\n## A Question is Produced\n## News of a Killing\n## God is Gracious in Pakistan\n## My Fifth Trial (Part I)\n## My Fifth Trial (Part II)\n## The Background\n## The Great Pothole Mystery\n## Firecrackers\n## Why I Can’t Stand Bollywood\n## Virtuous Women in Cinema\n## A Review of Saigal’s Zindagi\n## What Bollywood Must Do","[{\"question\":\"What does the introduction say about Manto’s identity and cultural belonging?\",\"answer\":\"It states that his identity came more from culture than from religion or geography, and that he wrote about this with great skill.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Partition figure in Manto’s life and writing, according to the text?\",\"answer\":\"It describes how Manto fled Bombay during Partition, worried about his daughters, and how the unleashed viciousness shaped the later direction of his work.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is Manto considered especially influential as a writer?\",\"answer\":\"The text credits his talent for producing magical short stories, his ability to grasp Indianness, and the lasting literary impact attributed to his writing.\"}]","Why I Write Essays - Why I Write | PDF",1789949773,205]