# Hasan Manto
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Saadat hasan manto (; Urdu: سعادت حسن منٹو, pronounced [səˈaːd̪ət̪ ˈɦəsən ˈməɳʈoː]; 11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955) was a colonial Indian and Pakistani writer, playwright and author born in Ludhiana, India. Writing mainly in the Urdu language, he produced 22 collections of short stories, a novel, five series of radio plays, three collections of essays and two collections of personal sketches. His best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
Ep. 25: The Holy Trinity of Dissent: Manto, Chughtai, and Faiz
They were the "problem children" of the revolution. One was labeled a pornographer, one a scandal-monger, and one a traitor to the state.
In this episode of Armpit Intellectuals, we move beyond the statues and the postage stamps to perform a forensic autopsy on the Holy Trinity of Dissent: Saadat H…
Aatish Taseer — A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile - with Ishaan Tharoor
In 2019, the government of Prime Minister Narenda Modi revoked Aatish Taseer's Indian citizenship, thereby exiling him from the country where he grew up and lived for thirty years. This loss, both practical and spiritual, sent him on a journey of revisiting the places that formed his identity, and …
A Conversation With Danish Husain
Between Karbala and the Stage: The Intersection of Longing and Logic with Danish HusainIn this evocative episode, Pooja sits down with Danish Husain-A man whose life and work exist at the intersection of longing and logic.From the calculated world of economics and banking to the visceral, ancient a…
Free Thinking Essay - Shakespeare & India
Drawing on Shakespeare's plays and Indian translations of them from recent times - and on writing by Saadat Hasan Manto and Rabindranath Tagore, the voices of partition and independence - Preti Taneja from Jesus College Cambridge explores the power of gibberish to upset fixed notions of language an…
The Story of Toba Tek Singh: Partition Through the Lens of Mental Illness
In 1947, patients in mental asylums across India and Pakistan were swapped between institutions when the border was redrawn. A historical event that most people have never heard of.
Saadat Hasan Manto, one of the most celebrated Urdu writers of the time, wrote a short story based on this called "To…
EP43 - Understanding the psychic lives of Indian Muslims
This MBM conversation is with Dr Zehra Mehdi, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and academic, whose PhD research and writing is focused on examining and understanding the Muslim life “lived as psychic political subjects” in contemporary India. We begin with Zehra’s story being born and raised in Luc…
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