Ludhiana Personality: Saadat Hasan Manto
As it was Manto’s birthday…
Saadat Hasan Manto was born on May 11, 1912. He was the leading Urdu short-story writer of the twentieth century of Kashmiri ancestry, who was born in Samrala in the Ludhiana district of Punjab. He completed matric in 1931. He was a journalist, critic and film writer. He worked for All India Radio during World War II and was a successful screen-writer in Bombay before moving to Pakistan during Partition of India. During his controversial two-decade career, Manto published twenty-two collections of stories, seven collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, and a novel. He is best known for his short stories – over 250 in 2 decades, many of which have been enacted in plays and films.
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