TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manṭo, Saadat Ḥasan
AU  - Toor, Saadia  (ed.)
TI  - ARMCHAIR REVOLUTIONARY AND OTHER SKETCHES : SAADAT HASAN MANTO
SN  - 9789380118284
U1  - 928 
PY  - 2016////00/01
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Leftword Books
KW  - Biography
KW  - Manṭo, Saadat Ḥasan, 1912-1955
KW  - Friends and associates
KW  - Authors, Urdu -- 20th century -- Biography
KW  - Motion picture actors and actresses -- India -- Biography
KW  - Contents:-Prologue : Manto(Nandita Das)-Introduction : The Progressive(Ali Mir and Saadia Toor)-A Note on the Translations-Sketches:1.Bari Alig (The Armchair Revolutionary)-Ashok Kumar(The Evergreen Hero)-V.H.Desai(Gods Clown)-Rafiq Ghaznavi : The Ladies Man-Shyam (Krishnas Flute)-Kuldip Kaur(Too Hot to Handle)-Nargis(Narcissus of Undying Bloom)-Neena (The Inscrutable house wife)-Babu Rao Patel : Soft-hearted Iconoclast-Nur Jehan : One in a Million-Naseem(The Fairy Queen)
N1  - With a special Prologue by actor and filmmaker Nandita Das.

"I heap a thousand curses on a world, on a civilized country, and on a civilized society, which legislates that after death every person’s character and personality must be sent to the laundry from where it returns having been cleaned in order to be hung on the hook of respectability."

Manto wrote these words in the preface to Ganje Farishte, a collection of his sketches. They give us a sense of what to expect from him: the ‘unvarnished’ truth as seen through his unforgiving gaze, and as captured by his sharp pen. Vivid and intimate portraits of well-known figures including celebrities such as Ashok Kumar, Nargis and Nur Jehan, they also document the social, political, and cultural milieu of that era.

Manto was a central and controversial figure on the subcontinent’s literary scene from the 1940s until his untimely death in 1955. In their introductory essay to this collection, the editors offer evidence that Manto was a deeply political writer, one committed to radical humanism. Despite his often fraught relationship with the Progressive Writers’ Association, he rightfully belongs within the fold of the progressives
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