City of Asylum/Pittsburgh visiting writer Vijay Nair examines the literary careers of two Urdu writers: Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto.
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In this week’s Pakistan Unveiled Bina Shah profiles Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto, who faced obscenity charges in Pakistan during his lifetime. After decades of being marginalized, Manto’s work is now recognized as “the literary voice of a nation.”
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