Question

Discuss the use of madness as a metaphor in Manto`s short story ""Toba Tek Singh"".

Answer 1

Answer:

In Toba Tek Singh, Manto also uses the madness of the asylum as a metonym for the madness that wreaks havoc in the nation at the time of partition. In an ironic manner, the mad are seen as saner than the sane whose reason led them to brutally divide a nation into two............