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“Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, “breasts”
― Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto
― Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto
“How queer, the Hindus don’t feed their cows although they call the cow “mother”!’ Bakha thought.”
― Untouchable
― Untouchable
“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
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“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
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“All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
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