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काली सलवार और अन्य कहानियाँ

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This ebook is from Rajpal and Sons, a 103 year-old publishing house headquartered in Delhi. Rajpal and Sons publishes books in English and Hindi languages, in non-fiction, fiction, classic and contemporary literature, and children categories.

159 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 31, 2016

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Saadat Hasan Manto

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Saadat Hasan Manto (Urdu: سعادت حسن منٹو, Hindi: सआदत हसन मंटो), the most widely read and the most controversial short-story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Sambrala in Punjab's Ludhiana District. In a writing career spanning over two decades he produced twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of reminiscences and many scripts for films. He was tried for obscenity half a dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. Not always was he acquitted. Some of Manto's greatest work was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him. He died a few months short of his forty-third birthday, in January 1955, in Lahore.

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157 reviews29 followers
November 25, 2018
पता नहीं कब से मंटो साहब की कोई किताब पढ़ना चाहते थे। और जब पढ़ना शुरू भी किए तो खत्म करने में साल भर लग गए।

हर कहानी पढ़ने के बाद काम से कम एक मिनट रुकना पड़ता है, कहानी सार समझने के लिए, और थोड़ी देर मुस्कुराने के लिए, या उदास होने लिए।

बहुत ही कठिन था ये पढ़ना, क्यूंकि ये हिंदी और उर्दू थोड़ी अलग सी है।

हर कहानी किसी इंसान बारे में है, जिसे या तो सच्चाई दिखती नहीं या जिसे दुनिया ने ठग लिया है, किसी को प्यार मिल गया है, किसी का छिन गया है। ना जाने कितने रंग है इनकी कहानियों में।

ये तो नहीं कहेंगे की पढ़ कर अच्छा लगा, लेकिन हां, समाज का आइना है ये कहानियां। बहुत ही यथार्थवादी - Realistic।

लेकिन अब हिम्मत नहीं है इनकी दूसरी किताब उठाने की - फिलहाल तो नहीं।
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February 4, 2019
Peopled with whores, pimps, smugglers, wastrels, charlatans and quacks. Some bits are incomprehensible due to either the language or the context. The allegorical “Dekh Kabira Roya” seems to comment on the then existing political situation. There is a poignant tale of two friends from same regiment now at war after Partition over Kashmir. Then there is a touching story of a pubescent girl.
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