Kavitha Elamvaluthi

“If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto

“Her pores were like those of an orange, its skin filled with juice, which, if you applied the slightest pressure, would squirt up into your eyes. She was that fresh.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto, Bombay Stories

“To those men who say that women from “good families” must come into the world of cinema, I have this question: What is it that you mean by “good?” A woman, who honestly puts her wares on display, and sells them without an intention to cheat, is such a woman not virtuous?”
― Saadat Hasan Manto, Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto

“I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto