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In the world of Urdu Short Stories, one name that stands towering above all others is that of Saadat Hasan Manto. The sheer intensity of his stories, particularly those on the Partition of India, leaves one almost gasping for breath as it were. Manto lived through the experiences of the Partition and like many other writers who belonged to that period of time, re-lived the horror and the incomprehensible violence and brutality of that year through his writings on the theme. What was different about Manto’s stories was that he wrote dispassionately and objectively, taking no sides and pronouncing no judgements. He was deeply wounded by the sudden savagery leashed upon man by man, upon brother by brother, on neighbour by neighbour, upon one community by the other.
Manto belonged to a middle-class Kashmiri family of Amritsar. He was born in Sambrala (which is some miles from Amritsar) on the eleventh of May 1912. His short life span saw him migrate to Pakistan after the partition, where he died in Lahore in 1955 at the age of forty three.
Manto’s father, Maulvi Ghulam Hasan, was a well educated man and worked as a government official in Sambrala. Soon after Manto’s birth he shifted to Amritsar and set up residence in Kucha Vakilan. He retired as Additional Sessions Judge. As far as formal education is concerned, Manto failed to make his mark. He could clear his school leaving examination only in the third attempt and it is highly ironical that one of the subjects which he was unable to pass was Urdu. He entered The Hindu Sabha College in Amritsar in 1931 but failed in the first year itself and so dropped out. A few years later, in l934, following the advice of a school friend in Amritsar, he took admission in the famous Aligarh Muslim University. But the story got repeated all over again and Manto did not do well.
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