Manto Saadat Hasan

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Surreal allegory of partition's psychological toll through asylum patient's journey

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Manto Saadat Hasan

Urdu short-story master whose unflinching portrayals of Partition violence and human depravity earned him six obscenity trials. His stories remain the essential literary witness to the worst of that catastrophe.

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