"Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent……" — Saadat Hasan Manto
"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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Saadat Hasan Manto
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11 Quotes by Saadat Hasan Manto
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I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear…
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Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon
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But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the…
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If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose…
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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,…
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If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this…
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...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.
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If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this…
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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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If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, then why does he have to enter…
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