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Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with:
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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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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
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try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.
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If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he
integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love
incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?
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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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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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"Ismats pen and tongue both run fast. When she starts writing, her
ideas race ahead and the words cannot catch up with them. When she
speaks, her words seem to tumble over one another. If sheenters the
kitchen to show her culinary skill, everything will be in a mess. Being
hasty by nature, she would conjure up the cooked roti in her mind even
before she had finished kneading the dough. The potatoes would note yet
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be peeled although she would have already finished making the curry in
her imagination. I feel sometimes she may just go into the kitchen
andcome out again afer being satiated by her imagination.
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You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of
yours, but a human being you had killed. I mean, if he was a bastard, by
killing him you wouldn't have killed the bastard in him; similarly,
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assuming that he was a Muslim, you wouldn't have killed his
Muslimness, but him.
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To tell you the truth, the world seemed full of sad people those who
slept on the uncovered stoops of shops as well as those who lived in
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high-rise mansions. The man who walks about on foot worries that he
doesnt have decent shoes to wear. The man who rides the automobile
frets that he doesnt have the latest model car. Every mans complaint is
valid in its own way. Every mans wish is legitimate in its own right.
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I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on
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display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its
lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.
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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.
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He catches the thieves that lie in the hearts of their pure and
respectable wives. And he compares them to the purity in the heart of a
whore in a brothel.
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Dear God, master of the universe, compassionate and merciful: we who
are steeped in sin, kneel in supplication before your throne and beseech
you to recall from this world Saadat Hasan Manto, son of Ghulam Hasan
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Manto, who was a man of great piety. Take him away, Lord, for he runs
away from fragrance and chases after filth. He hates the bright sun,
preferring dark labyrinths. He has nothing but contempt for modesty but
is fascinated by the naked and the shameless. He hates sweetness, but
will give his life to taste bitter fruit. He will not so much as look at
housewives but is in seventh heaven in the company of whores. He will
not go near running waters, but loves to wade through filth. Where
others weep, he laughs; and where others laugh, he weeps. Faces
blackened by evil, he loves to wash with tender care to make visible their
real features. He never thinks about you but follows Satan everywhere,
the same fallen angel who once disobeyed you.
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that ugly truth about Manto, the man: that for all his love of Indian
multiplicity, he went to Pakistan. He even tried convincing Chughtai to
go. The future looks beautiful in Pakistan, he said to her, Well be able
to get the houses of people whove fled from there. Itll be just us there.
Well progress very quickly. When I read this, I had trouble holding the
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two Mantos in my mind. It seemed impossible that the creator of Manto,
the narrator and fictional presence, so immersed in the variety of India,
seeming so much to rejoice in it, should also be the author of that
remark, with its sly wish for homogeneity, for the place where Itll be
just us. Chughtai, for other reasons, was also disgusted.
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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
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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?
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Look this is hardly fair. You sold me impure petrol at black-market
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price and not even one shop could be put to the torch.
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thought a glass of lassi would be refreshing. In the shop I noticed that
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the fan was on, but turned away from both customers and the owner. I
was curious and asked why it was so. The owner glared at me and said:
Cant you see? I looked. The fan was pointed in the direction of a poster
of our great leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. I shouted, Pakistan
Zindabad! and left without the lassi. In front of a shop, a man
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The field that cannot feed even its tiller Burn down every stalk that
stands on it.
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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
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War has brought inflation even to the graveyard.
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His last years were beset with financial troubles; he drank heavily; he
wrote to Chughtai on more than one occasion, pleading with her to find
a way for him to come back to India. She was surprised to learn that far
from large protests and signed declarations on his behalf, many in
Pakistan felt he deserved to be punished. He died on January 18, 1955 in
Lahore at the age of forty two.
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For me, remembrance of things past has always been a waste of time,
and whats the point of tears? I dont know. Ive always been focussed
on today. Yesterday and tomorrow hold no interest for me. What had to
happen, did, and what will happen, will.
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