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“I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.”
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“...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.”
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“Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with:
"In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing....
Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.”
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"In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing....
Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.”
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“Look this is hardly fair. You sold me impure petrol at black-market price and not even one shop could be put to the torch.”
― Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
― Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
“Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.”
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Hreeshabh’s 2024 Year in Books
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