Monday, October 29, 2012

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

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KOI LAMHA KHAB NAHI HOTA by Umaira Ahmad is a fantastic Urdu story. It is a story of a girl whose mother died in her childhood and a boy who lost her mother in his childhood. But both of them lived in a different way.

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Momina (Momi) is a girl whose mother died in her childhood, she spent some years with her grandmother and after her death she returns to her home. Her father gets remarries a woman. Her step mom does not like her and she lives in her father’s home like a strange and his father also could not help her.
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Ahfaz ur Rahman A great Coulmist & Journalist Of Pakistan

File:Ahfaz profile.jpgAhfaz-ur-Rahman (Urdu: ا حفاظ ا لر حما ن )(born April 4, 1942), is a Pakistani journalist, writer and poet. He has always struggled for the freedom of the press and for the rights of working journalists and other media workers. He has raised his voice both against the numerous dictatorial Pakistani regimes and the corporate media houses who refuse to give the journalists and other workers of the press industry their due.
Rahman has written many books and translations[1] and which equally inspire for his efforts for press freedom and implementation of Wage Board Award. Therefore, as a tribute, he has been referred to as "a rare breed" [1] in the Pakistani media circles.

Contents

  • 1 Biography
    • 1.1 In China
    • 1.2 Activism
  • 2 Journalistic career
    • 2.1 In newspapers as
    • 2.2 Professional trade unionism
  • 3 Bibliography
  • 4 See also
  • 5 References

Biography

Rahman was born in Jabalpur, India and migrated with his family to Pakistan in 1947.[1]During his secondary education he won the first prize[1] in a competition for his article on the Urdu Poet and socialist Faiz Ahmad Faiz entitled 'Gandum kay khet, bachon kay haath aur shair," organised by well known literary magazine Afkar. He also won the first prize for "Paighamber kay naam", an article on the writings of Krishan Chander in a competition organised by Indian literary magazine 'Shair".[citation needed]

Rahman receiving the first prize from Faiz Ahmad Faiz in an Indo-Pak Youth Essay Writing Competition on Faiz
He was inspired by Sahir Ludhyanvi, Krishan Chander and other stalwarts of the Progressive Writers' Movement since his school days, it was not surprising that he came up as a student leader of the left-wing student organisation, National Students Federation (NSF) and took part in 1962 and 1964 student upsurges against General Ayub Khan's regime with zeal.[1]

In China

In 1969, Rahman landed in Beijing China for a job in the Foreign Languages Press, These were the years of Cultural Revolution.He

Rahman working alongside Chinese farmers in Rural China, during the cultural revolution
stayed in China till 1972 (four years) and translated many famous books of Chinese literature as well as the selected writings of Mao Zedong and others. He also compiled a text book for Urdu for Peking University[citation needed] In 1985, he was invited back by the Chinese government to again work for the Foreign Languages Press in Beijing. This time he spent eight years there during which time, he translated numerous Chinese novels, plays, short stories, stories for children and biographies into Urdu.[citation needed]

Activism


Rahman on the ground during protests against the Musharraf regime's decision to ban media channels in 2007
Rahman began his activism a new upon returning to Pakistan from China at the end of 1972. During the historic journalist movement against Zia-ul-Haq's regime in 1977-78, Rahman went underground and organized that movement and had to escape arrest during that period. The movement had started in 1977, when the Daily Musawaat, Karachi, a newspaper with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leanings, was banned by General Zia's government.[1]
During the Zia ul Haq regime, from December 1977 to July 1978, Rahman organized the movement for the freedom of the press.
On December 1977, journalists form all over the country came to Karachi to offer court arrest in batches. Rahman was the first journalist to be arrested in the first batch. And from 30 April 1978 to 30 May 1978 More than 120 journalists who came from various cities to court arrest in Lahore were arrested and sent to different jails of the Punjab province. Rahman was again among the first to be arrested and sent to Camp Jail. Later he was taken out of the jail and debarred from the Punjab province for six months. In July 1978 journalists form all corners came to Karachi for court arrest and were sent to different jails of the Sindh province. In the meantime, Rahman went underground to organize batches consisting of journalists, workers, peasants and student volunteers for court arrest.[1] After the movement ended, Rahman was blacklisted by all major newspapers and magazines, as a result he faced economic difficulties due to a long period of unemployment.

Journalistic career

After coming back to Pakistan in 1993, with the Zia era over, Rahman joined Daily Jang, the largest selling Urdu newspaper in Pakistan, as the Magazine Editor. In 2002, he was elected unopposed President of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), which is the sole representative body of Pakistani journalists and is affiliated with the International Federation Of Journalists (IFJ), the largest federation of journalists in the world.[2] As the president of the PFUJ when he constantly protested against the greed of the newspaper and media house owners of the country for not giving the workers their due rights and for not implementing the wage board award[3] as had been directed by the Government for long. He was terminated from services for his outspoken activism.[3] After yet another period of unemployment, Rahman finally found a job in the Urdu newspaper Daily Express as the Magazine Editor. He also writes a weekly column that appears on Sundays in Daily Express, titled "Black and White" (Syaah o Safaid) In November, 2007, Rahman was among the first journalists to be arrested[4] during the protests[5] against the Musharraf government's decision to ban several media channels. Rahman has worked to "revitalize" the Karachi Press Club and has "condemned the opportunist elements that were bent upon de-politicising the vibrant club" [6]
In February 2008, in what was a first in the history of Pakistani literature, four of his newly published books were launched at Arts Council Karachi[7] on the same day in a well-attended ceremony that attracted people, including poets, writers, journalists, trade unionists and activists.

In newspapers as

  • Group Magazine Editor Daily Express, April 2005 till present
  • Executive Editor Daily Amn, 2004–2005
  • Group Magazine Editor Daily Jang, 1993–2004
  • Editor Urdu Section, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China 1985-1993
  • Assistant Editor Monthly Aalami Digest, Karachi 1979-84
  • Magazine Editor Daily Mussawat, Karachi 1973-77
  • Assistant Editor Weekly Al-Fatah, Karachi 1972-73
  • Editor Urdu Section, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China, 1969–1972
  • Sub-editor Weekly Akhbar e Jahan, Karachi 1966-68

Professional trade unionism

  • President, Pakistan Fededral Union of Journalists, 2003-4 and 2004-5
  • Secretary General of the Joint Action committee of PFUJ and APNEC, 1977-78 (movement for press freedom against Zia ul Haq)
  • General Secretary, Karachi Union of Journalists 1976-78
  • Joint Secretary, Karachi Union of Journalists, 1973-4 and 1974–75
  • Member Executive Council National Students Federation (NSF), Pakistan[2]
[8] [9]

Bibliography

Poetry
  • Nai Alif Laila, a collection of poems and Ghazals
Articles
  • Jang jari rahay gi, a collection of articles
Books,translation from English
  • Chou En Lai, biography
  • History of China
  • A Jail Warden's Diary, prize-winning short stories from China
  • Lunar Eclipse, prize-winning short stories from China
  • Sunrise, a play by playwright Cao Yu
  • Selected works of Mao Tse Tung, co-translator
  • Family, a novel by writer Mao Dun
  • Taras Bulba, Russian novel by Nikolai Gogol
  • World of Stories by Bulgarian writer Angel Karralichev
  • Autumn in Spring, collection of short stories by Chinese writer Ba Jin
  • Qui Yuan, classical Chinese play by writer Ko Mo Ro
  • Three Conceited Kittens, Chinese novel for children
  • The Adventures of the Rag Doll, Chinese novel for children
  • Neemoo Keemoo, a short novel for children
  • Great Britain, book of general knowledge for Pakistani children
  • Also translated about 50 pictorial Chinese books for children as well as books of Chinese folk tales
Original Urdu Work
  • Written hundreds of articles on political, social and cultural themes published in leading Urdu journals and newspapers
  • 30 short stories in literary magazines

List of Pakistani writers (All Pakistani Writers) (Urdu Writers))

This is a List of Pakistani writers, writers of fiction and nonfiction who are native to, or born in Pakistan, writing in any language.
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B

  • Badshah Munir Bukhari
  • Bano Qudsia
  • Bapsi Sidhwa
  • Bina Shah
  • Bushra Rahman

C

  • Chaudhry Afzal Haq
  • Colonel Muhammad Khan

D

E

  • Ehsan Sehgal

F

  • Faiz Ahmad Faiz
  • Farhat Ishtiaq
  • Faryal Gohar
  • Fatima Surayya Bajia
  • Muhammad Farooq
  • Fatima Bhutto
  • Fawzia Afzal-Khan
  • Farman Fatehpuri

G

Ghulam Rabbani Agro
  • Ghazala Rafi
  • Ghulam Muhammad Qasir
  • Ghulam Hassan Lobsang

H

  • Hajra Masroor
  • Hakim Ahmad Shuja
  • Hakim Said
  • Harris Khalique
  • Haider Qureshi

I

  • Ibn-e-Insha
  • Idris Azad
  • Iftikhar Arif
  • Ihsan Danish
  • Imdad Hussaini
  • Intizar Hussain
  • Ishtiaq Ahmed
  • Ismail Ahmedani
  • Ibn-e-Safi
  • Israr Ahmed
  • Ishtiaq Ahmed

J

  • Janbaz Mirza
  • Jazib Qureshi
  • Javed Ahmad Ghamidi

K

  • Khadija Mastoor
  • Kamila Shamsie
  • Khakan Sajid
  • Kishwar Naheed
  • Kashif Butt
  • Khan Roshan khan

M

  • Mahmood Shaam
  • Masood Ashraf Raja
  • Mazhar Hussain Rehmani
  • Mazhar ul Islam
  • Mohammad Hanif
  • Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini
  • Muhammad Asad
  • Muhammad Taqi Usmani
  • Mohsin Bhopali
  • Mohsin Hamid
  • Muhammad Asim Butt
  • Muhammad Munawwar Mirza
  • Muhammad Umar Memon
  • Mujeeb Zafar Anwar Hameedi
  • Mumtaz Mufti
  • Muneeza Shamsie
  • Muniruddin Ahmed
  • Musharraf Ali Farooqi
  • Mustansar Hussain Tarar
  • Mushtaq Ahmed Yousfi
  M.Athar Tahir

N

O

  • Allamah Kaukab Noorani Okarvi

P

  • Patras Bokhari
  • Partawi Shah

Q

  • Qudrat Ullah Shahab
  • Qurat-ul-Ain Haider

R

  • Raees Warsi
  • Rahim Gul
  • Rasheed Ahmed Siddique

S

T

  • Tanwir Phool
  • Tariq Ismail Sagar
  • Tahir Alauddin
  • Tahir Naqvi

U

W

  • Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Wazir Agha

Z

  • Zaib-un-nissa Hamidullah
  • Zulfikar Ghose
  • Zafar Mairaj

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Abdul Hameed better known as A Hameed (Urdu: اے۔ حمید) is a popular Urdu fiction writer from Lahore, Pakistan who has written over 200 books.

A Hameed was born in 1928 in Amritsar British India. He passed his secondary education in Amritsar. He migrated to Pakistan after partition and passed intermediate in Pakistan as a private candidate and join Radio Pakistan as assistant script editor. After working some year for Radio Pakistan he joined Voice of America.

His first collection of short stories Manzil Manzil got a great acclaim from the readers and made him a well recognized romantic short story writer.
A part from writing short stories and novels he is writing columns for national news papers. He has written many programs for Radio and TV which have got a great acknowledgement from the listener and viewers as well.

He has written more than 200 books. Urdu She'r Ki Dastan, Urdu Nasr ki Dastan (in which he has given information about the prose literature of many Urdu prose writers from Banda Nawas gesu Draz to the recent prose writers of Daccen and Gugrat), Mirza Ghalib, Dastango Ashfaq Ahmad and Mirza Ghalib Lahore mai are his most famous books.

His Drama Ainak Wala Jin has got a great fame among the children in the 1990s.





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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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Saadat Hassan Manto (Punjabi, Urdu: ‏‏سعادت حسن منٹو) (May 11, 1912 – January 18, 1955) was an Indian Urdu short story writer who migrated to Pakistan after Partition of India. He is best known for his Urdu short stories , 'Bu' (Odour), 'Khol Do' (Open It), 'Thanda Gosht' (Cold Meat), and his magnum opus, Toba Tek Singh'. Unfortunately having spent life on both sides of the border he was portrayed as an Indian writer in Pakistan and in India he was portrayed as a Pakistani writer. But truly he was a writer above distinctions of country or religion.

Saadat Hasan Manto was also a film and radio scriptwriter, and journalist. In his short life, he published twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of personal sketches.
Saadat Hasan Manto was tried for obscenity half-a-dozen times, thrice before 1947 and thrice after 1947 in Pakistan, but never convicted. Some of his works have been translated in other languages.

Combining psychoanalysis with human behaviour, he was arguably one of the best short story tellers of the 20th century, and one of the most controversial as well. When it comes to chronicling the collective madness that prevailed, during and after the Partition of India in 1947, no other writer comes close to the oeuvre of Saadat Hassan Manto.
Since he started his literary career translating works of literary giants, like Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde and many Russian masters like Chekov and Gorky, their collective influence made him search for his own moorings. This search resulted in his first story, Tamasha, based on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar. Though his earlier works, influenced by the progressive writers of his times showed a marked leftist and socialist leanings, his later work progressively became stark in portraying the darkness of the human psyche, as humanist values progressively declined around the Partition. So much so that his final works that came out in the dismal social climate and his own financial struggles reflected an innate sense of human impotency towards darkness that prevailed in the larger society, cultivating in satirism that verged on dark comedy, as seen in his final great work, Toba Tek Singh, that not just showed a direct influence of his own stay in a veritable mental asylum, but also a reflection of collective madness that he saw in the ensuing decade of his life. To add to it, his numerous court cases and societal rebukes, deepened his cynical view of society, from which he felt ever so isolated. No part of human existence remain untouched or taboo for him, he sincerely brought out stories of prostitutes and pimps alike, just as he highlighted the subversive sexual slavery of the women of his times. To many contemporary women writers, his language far from being obscene brought out the women of times in realism, seen never before, and provided them with the human dignity they long deserved. Unlike his fellow luminaries, he never indulged in didacticism or romanticised his character, nor offered any judgement on his characters. No matter how macabre or immoral they might seem, he simply presented the characters in a realistic light, and left the judgement on to the reader's eyes. This allows his works to be interpreted in a myriad ways, depending on the viewpoint of the reader. They would appear sensationalist or prurient to one, while exceedingly human to another. Yet it was this very non-judgemental and rather unhindered truism of his pen that put him in an opposite camp from the media censors, social prejudices and the legal system of his times, so much so that he remained banned for many years and lost out on many opportunities to earn a healthy living. He is still known for his scathing insight into the human behaviour as well as revelation of the macabre animalistic nature of an enraged peoplw, that stands out amidst the brevity of his prose.
Saadat Hasan Manto is often compared with D. H. Lawrence, and like Lawrence he also wrote about the topics considered social taboos in Indo-Pakistani Society. His topics range from the socio-economic injustice prevailing in pre- and post- colonial era, to the more controversial topics of love, sex, incest, prostitution and the typical hypocrisy of a traditional male. In dealing with these topics, he doesn't take any pains to conceal the true state of the affair - although his short stories are often intricately structured, with vivid satire and a good sense of humour. In chronicling the lives and tribulations of the people living in lower depths of the human existence, no writer of 20th century, came close to Manto. His concerns on the socio-political issues, from local to global level are revealed in his series, Letters to Uncle Sam, and those to Pandit Nehru. On his writing he often commented, "If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth".

In many ways his writings can be considered a precursor to the minimalist writing movement of nineties. Instead of focusing on composition, Manto created literary effect through narration of facts, often mini stories, often gritty. Characters are not defined exclusively by the way they look, but by what they've done in their lives. Places are not described as a collection of sensory observations but as settings for events, sad, poignant, happy or otherwise.

Saadat Hassan Manto was born in a Kashmiri Muslim family of barristers, on May 11, 1912.

Saadat Hasan Manto received his early education at Muslim High School in Amritsar, but he remained a misfit throughout in school years, rapidly losing motivation in studies, ending up failing twice in matriculation. His only love during those days, was reading English Novels, for which he even stole a book, once from a Book-Stall in Amritsar Railway Station.

In 1931, he finally passed out of school and joined Hindu Sabha College in Amritsar, which was already volatile due the independence movement, soon it reflected in his first story, 'Tamasha', based on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

After his father died in 1932, he sobered up a bit to support his mother. The big turning point in his life came, when in 1933 at age 21, he met Abdul Bari Alig, a scholar and polemic writer, in Amritsar who encouraged to him find his true talents and read Russian and French authors.

Within a matter of months Manto produced an Urdu translation of Victor Hugo's The Last Days of a Condemned Man, which was published by Urdu Book Stall, Lahore as Sarguzasht-e-Aseer (A Prisoner's Story). Soon afterwards he joined the editorial staff of Masawat, a daily published from Ludhiana His 1934 Urdu translation of Oscar Wilde's Vera won him due recognition amongst the literary circles. At the continued encouragement of Abdul Bari, he published a collection of Urdu translation of Russian stories as Russi Afsane.

This heightened enthusiasm pushed Manto to pursue graduation at Aligarh Muslim University, which he joined in February 1934, and soon got associated with Indian Progressive Writers' Association (IPWA). It was here that he met writer Ali Sardar Jafri and found a new spurt in his writing. His second story 'Inqlaab Pasand' was published in Aligarh magazine in March 1935.

There was no turning back from there and his first collection of original short stories in Urdu, Atish Pare (Sparks; also Quarrel-Provokers), was published in 1936, at age 24.

Saadat Hasan Manto left Aligarh within a year, initially for Lahore and ultimately for Bombay.

After 1936, he moved to Bombay where he stayed for the next few years editing Musawwir, a monthly film magazine. He also started writing scripts and dialogues for Hindi films, including Kishan Kanhaya (1936) and Apni Nagariya (1939). Soon he was making enough money, though by the time he married Safia on 26 April 1939, he was once again in dire financial crisis. Despite financial ups and downs he continued writing for films until he left for Delhi in January 1941.

Saadat Hasan Manto had accepted the job of writing for Urdu Service of All India Radio in 1941. This proved to be his most productive period as in the next eighteen months he published over four collections of radio plays, Aao (Come), Manto ke Drame (Manto's Dramas), Janaze (Funerals) and Teen Auraten (Three women). He continued to write short stories and his next short story collection Dhuan (Smoke) was soon out followed by Manto ke Afsane and his first collection of topical essays, Manto ke Mazamin. This period culminated with the publication of his mixed collection Afsane aur Drame in 1943. Meanwhile, due a quarrel with then director of the All India Radio, poet N. M. Rashid, he left his job and returned to Bombay in July 1942 and again started working with film industry. He entered his best phase in screenwriting giving films like Aatth Din, Chal Chal Re Naujawan and Mirza Ghalib, which was finally released in 1954 [2]. Some of his best short stories also came from this phase including 'Kaali Shalwar', 'Dhuan' (1943) and 'Bu' which was published in Qaumi Jang (Bombay) in February 1945. Another hightlight of his second phase in Bombay was the publication of an important collection of his stories, Chugad, which also included the story 'Babu Gopinath'. He continued to stay in Bombay till he moved to Pakistan in January 1948 much after the partition of India in 1947.

Saadat Hassan Manto arrived in Lahore sometime in early 1948. In Bombay his friends had tried to stop him from migrating to Pakistan because he was quite popular as a film writer and was making reasonably good money. Among his friends there were top actors and directors of that age — many of them Hindus — who were trying to prevail upon him to forget about migrating. They thought that he would be unhappy in Pakistan because the film industry of Lahore stood badly disrupted with the departure of Hindu film-makers and studio owners. But the law and order situation post-partition of British India was such that many Muslims felt insecure in India, just as many Hindus felt insecure in newly created Pakistan. That was the reason that Manto had already sent his family to Lahore and was keen to join them. Manto and his family were among the millions of Muslims who left present-day India for the newly created Muslim-majority nation of Pakistan.

Manto had at least one consolation. His nephew Hamid Jalal had already settled his family in a flat next to his own in Lakshmi Mansions near The main Mall. The complex was centrally located. From there every place of importance was at a stone's throw. These flats were occupied by families of some of the people who were destined to become important in the intellectual and academic fields. Manto's next door neighbour was his nephew Hamid Jalal who later became an important mediaman. In another flat, lived Professor G M Asar who taught Urdu at Government College, Lahore. Hailing from Madras, he wrote and spoke excellent English as well. Then there was Malik Meraj Khalid who was to play an important role in the politics of Pakistan. Writer Mustansar Hussain Tarars family also lived in one of the flats there after shifting from Gowalmandi, though Tarar's presence cannot be referred to as a contribution to literary ambience as Tarar was just an adolescent at that time and hadn't even started to write.. Thus when Manto arrived in Lahore from Bombay he found an intellectual atmosphere around him. His only problem was how to cater for his family. Sadly for him, Lahore of that period did not have many opportunities to offer.

After the writers who had migrated from various Indian cities settled in Lahore, they started their literary activities. Soon Lahore saw a number of newspapers and periodicals appearing. Manto initially wrote for some literary magazines. These were the days when his controversial stories like Khol Do (Urdu: کھول دو Open it) and Thanda Gosht (Urdu: ٹھنڈا گوشت Cold Meat) created a furor among the conservatives. People like Choudhry Muhammad Hussain played a role in banning and prosecuting the writer as well as the publishers and editors of the magazines that printed his stories. Among the editors were such amiable literary figures as Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, Hajira Masroor and Arif Abdul Matin. Soon the publishers who were more interested in commercial aspects of their ventures, slammed their doors shut to Manto's writings. He, therefore, started contributing stories to the literary supplements of some newspapers. Even this practice could not go on for long. Masood Ashar who was then editing the literary page of "Daily Ehsan" published some of his stories but the conservative owner of the paper soon asked him to refrain from the practice.
During those days, Manto also tried his hand at newspaper column writing. he started off with writing under the title Chashm-e-Rozan for daily Maghribi Pakistan on the insistence of his friends of Bombay days Ehsan BA and Murtaza Jillani who were editing that paper. But after a few columns one day the space appeared blank under the column saying that due to his indisposition Manto couldn't write the column. Actually Manto was not indisposed, the owner was not favourably disposed to some of the sentences in the column.

The only paper that published Manto's articles regularly for quite some time was "Daily Afaq", for which he wrote some of his well known sketches. These sketches were later collected in his book Ganjay Farishtay(Bald Angels). The sketches include those of famous actors and actresses like Ashok Kumar, Shyam, Nargis, Noor Jehan and Naseem (mother of Saira Banu). He also wrote about some literary figures like Meera Ji, Hashar Kashmiri and Ismat Chughtai. Manto's sketch of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was also first published in Afaq under the title Mera Sahib. It was based on an interview with Haneef Azad, Qauid-e-Azam's driver of Bombay days who after leaving his job as driver became a well known actor. The article included some of the remarks related to the incident when Dina Jinnah married Wadia. Later when the sketch was included in the book these lines were omitted.

Manto created a new tell-all style of writing sketches. He would mince no words, writing whatever he saw. "I have no camera which could wash out the small pox marks from Hashar Kashmiri's face or change the obscene invectives uttered by him in his flowery style," he wrote.

Manto once tried to present the sketch of Mulana Chiragh Hasan Hasrat in a literary gathering organized in YMCA Hall Lahore to celebrate the Maulana's recovery from heart attack. The sketch entitled Bail Aur Kutta was written in his characteristic style exposing some aspects of Maulana's life. The presiding dignitary stopped him from reading the article and ordered him to leave the rostrum. Manto, however, was in 'high spirits'. He refused to oblige and squatted on the floor, and was with difficulty prevailed upon by his wife, Safia, to leave the stage.

Those days Manto was writing indiscriminately in order to provide for his family and be able to drink every evening. For everything he wrote, he would demand cash in advance. In later days, he started writing for magazines like Director. He would go to its office, ask for pen and paper, write his article, collect the remuneration and go away. This Manto was different from the one who arrived in Lahore in 1948.
The Manto in 1950 had a glowing Kashmiri complexion and a thick crop of long brown hair on his head. He was wearing a light brown gabardine shirwanee with a silken trousers and saleem shahi shoes. He came to Government College, Lahore to read his article How Do I Write a Story.

But the necessity to earn his livelihood consumed him very fast. In a few years, his complexion became pale and his hair turned grey. We saw him reading his story Toba Tek Singh at YMCA Hall at the annual meeting of Halqa-e-Arbab-e-Zauq. He looked older than his years wearing an overcoat with collars turned up. The big eyes that darted out of the thick-rimmed glasses looked pale and yellow. But he read his story in his usual dramatic style and when he finished reading it there was pin drop silence in the hall and there were tears in everyone's eyes.
In later days, though Manto appeared in the Pak Tea House and other literary functions regularly but he seemed to be in great stress. Earlier, he was known for his witty remarks in literary gatherings. However, in later days he would present his writings in literary meetings but would not tolerate any criticism. He had become extremely touchy and would shout back at his critics. There were days when he was welcomed everywhere and literary organisations clamoured for his participation in their meetings. But then came the days when people started avoiding him because he would not hesitate from borrowing money from them.

Simultaneously he had embarked on a journey of self-destruction. The substandard alcohol that he consumed destroyed his liver and in the winter of 1955 he fell victim to liver cirrhosis. During all these years in Lahore he waited for the good old days to return, never to find them again.He was 42 years old at the time of his death. He was survived by his wife Safiyah and three daughters.

On January 18, 2005, the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Manto was commemorated on a Pakistani postage stamp.

Though Manto was not in need of any action like Postage Stamps and his work itself was sufficient to remain his name live in the minds of Urdu readers especially those who are fond of reading short stories, but this action of Pakistani government was right as it could spread his name in those who were not aware of him and his work

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