Rex’s Reviews > Manto: Selected Short Stories > Status Update

"I felt the urge many times to start screaming, 'for God's sake, let men remain men! You have defaced them already, fine, now have mercy on their condition. While you are busy trying to make gods out of them, those poor wretches are losing whatever humanity they do have!'"

“Sometimes she felt that, though she had not sold herself, people had slyly bought her anyway.”

— from License

Khol Do (खोल दो) is probably one of the best short stories, I have ever read: Saadat Hassan Manto’s stories in general and of #Partition are unlike any from the Subcontinent.