But we are as much to blame for having bitten this bitter fruit. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of DailyO.in or the India Today Group. If only we were to let him be, we would be better off. In case you can’t find any email from our side, please check the spam folder. It'll just take a moment.You are now subscribed to our newsletters. "What is fluid and colloquial in the original becomes repetitive, even a little turgid, in its English translation. These stories published first in different books under various titles and now available in a single volume. As hard as we might try to forget him, newer collections of his short stories, essays and musings keep returning to bookshelves, in fancier covers and able translations, and we readily submit ourselves to wallow in the curls of smoke of his smouldering tales.Perhaps, the biggest irony of it all is, had the great, controversial and self-deprecating Urdu writer been alive, or was suddenly brought back to life, he would've looked at both India and Pakistan, which now hold him in much awe and respect, and hung his head in utter horror and dismay.
His fierce candour - something we see so little of in contemporary writers - subjected him to much ridicule, hardship and persecution.
English can sometimes require too many words.Just read Taseer’s translation of the first two sentences of Toba Tek Singh. These stories are about us, about who we are, and who we cannot hide from.My own introduction to Manto was, like most people, through his short story "Toba Tek Singh", which was a part of my first year Delhi University English Honours course. This is not to take away from Taseer’s achievement: Just knowing that the translations have been made with care to retain the original intent of Manto’s sentences is a relief, and Taseer’s literary intelligence does much to help bring out much of Manto’s own. What good does it serve that even though the world has moved on, we are still stuck in the quagmire of ignorance, fear, communalism and hate. Like so many things about Manto’s work, the translation of his afsanas (Urdu short stories) into English have incurred both suspicion and controversy. In them you not only find themes of killing, slaughter and rape, but also of lust, squalor, depravity and perversion. He was tried six times for obscenity, thrice during the British Raj and thrice post Independence.Despite the intrigue his name lends, it is tragic that Manto broadly falls under the tag of being a writer of stories on Partition and prostitutes today - a point translator Muhammad Umar Memon raises in the introduction of his newly released His stories, for me though, are of a mottled hue; of unflinching honesty and iridescent vigour; a broken mirror or a muddy puddle that couldn't help cast a reflection on not only a violent, brutal and turbulent chapter of India, but bare the very nakedness of human nature. What became of his Bombay, he would ask, the city which inspired him to write films, lives of stars and disrobed itself to reveal its filth and scars, with such flourish and brio? There, in the tiny strip between the two countries marred by cross-border firing, let it be known, lies Saadat Hasan Manto. Jostling for column space to write "misogynistic" pieces along with a Mrs Funny Bones, or being browbeaten by publishers, waxing eloquent on the difference between "best writer" and "bestselling writer".In all likelihood, I imagine, he would fall sick after being heckled on social media, tagged as a #libturd or #sickular, and chased all over the countryside by Hindu fundamentalists, threatening to send him back to Pakistan, to go and lie in his rotting grave again. Here is Manto’s Urdu, transliterated for the benefit of bilingual readers: “Batwaarey ke do-teen saal baad Pakistan aur Hindustan ki hukumaton ko khayaal aaya ke akhlaaki qaidiyon ki tarah paaghalon ka bhi tabaadla hona chahiye, yaani jo musalmaan paagal Hindustan ke paagalkhaanon mein hain, unhe Pakistan pahuncha diya jaaye aur jo Hindu aur Sikh Pakistan ke paagalkhaanon mein hain, unhe Hindustan ke havaaley kar diya jaaye.
In Manto’s 100th year, every new encounter with his work continues to be a revelation. Book Name: Manto Rama Writer: Saadat Hasan Manto. Or shouting the choicest of Punjabi obscenities and shaking an angry fist at news anchors on 9pm debates.
The best-known, and most widely available, English translations of Manto, by the late Khalid Hasan, have been severely criticized for what Taseer delicately puts as “trying to improve upon the writer". Even better that he is not read. Said to be inspired by Manto's own experience in a mental asylum, it is about the toll the news of Partition has on the inmates of an institution and the concern it raises about their own ambivalent fates. Log in to our website to save your bookmarks. He is a thief, a liar, a cheat and a man who likes to hold forth before others..."If one must read Manto to truly appreciate him, I feel, one must read him in Hindi. That is to say, Muslim lunatics housed in Indian asylums should be repatriated to Pakistan and Sikh and Hindu lunatics, in turn, handed over to India." But it seems equally spurious to go through stories looking for clues to Manto the man, a task better left to biographers than social historians.Taseer’s introduction, which involves his own family history and an extensive reflection on the practice of Urdu and its literary culture in India, as well as a fascinating reading of Manto and his affect, is interesting enough to merit a review of its own. True to his word, 60 years after Saadat Hasan's death, Manto continues to haunt us with a strange and morbid relish.
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