Assignment IPS=2

SAJID HUSSAIN
1803031 ROLL NO
Submitted to,

Adnan Zahid
Project of analysis of anyone
personality
My personality name is given below

Saadat Hasan
Manto
Here I am talking about a person who was very famous
in the indo-pakistan and he was a magical word for the
Urdu language readers. He was a short story writer and
this person got fame as the greatest screenwriter,
playwright, and novelist. He lived a very short period of
life between 11 May 1922 to 18 January 1955. Life story
of this person not only give him success but also,
brought his life into troubles. His life was stick to it in
the societal issue but he was a man, who created
awareness through his bare writings and this person
name is Saadat Hasan Manto. This person is very
respectable for me because to only one reasons I like
this man because he expose the reality of society. Here,
I want to say that literature is not mean reading of
different books, it is expression, interpretation and
analysis of life and view everything with her own point
of views. It is a creative writing of that person, who
understands life and possesses enough courage to
express it in his own words. So I like that person very
much.
Introduction
Saadat hasan manto was born in in 11 May 1912. This
personality plays a great role in the creation of news ideas
through books because he was a good writer which is born in
Ludhiana. Ludhiana is a city a municipal corporation in Ludhiana
district in the Indian state of Punjab. Ludhiana is Punjab largest
city and India’s largest city north of Delhi with an area of 310 sq
km and estimated population of 1,618,879 as of the 2011
census. This person writes 22 numbers of books its included
short stories, a novel, five series of radio plays, three collections
of essays, two collections of personal sketches. He is known well
because this person try his best to explain the hard truths of
society that no one dared to talk about and he is well known of
his stories about the partition of India. He was born into a family
of sunni muslims . Kashmiri are known for their lighter
complexions. Many details about his youth are missing, but it is
known that his family was in law and his father was a judge. .
Manto’s mother, Sardar Begum, was the second wife of his
father, Khwaja Ghulam Hasan

In the early twenties, saadat Hassan manto began his reading in

the French and Russian authors at the insistences of his mentor
Abdul Bari Alig. At that time in his life a book play a great role in
shaping his future and this book name is “The last Day of a
condemnea Man by Victor Hugo” because this book inspires him
to read and start several translation projects. He translated it
into urdu. Saadat hasan manto work many years on the
translation of Russian and French into Urdu.In the year 1934,
after working in the small publication, he took admission in
Aligarh Muslims University in India. In his his university time he
became a friends with Ali sardar jafri and he is also Urdu writer.
During in these day, he wrote short stories, and one of them was
published, “inqlaab pasand” After all this, he also write stories
and all type of plays. He writes four volumes of radio plays in
1941 -1943. In this time, he also write short stories and if we
look in the 1945, his collection of short stories that he had
written and published are given “Kaali shalwar,” and “Bu,” which
would later be collected in twenty-two short story volumes.

He is such a personality which exposes the reality of a society. If I

decode the word of saadat hasan manto he says that “if you find
my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my
stories, I only expose the truth.” In this time many time
Government interfere with his work as because a society always
did not want to talk about underlying issues such as religious and
political strife that plagued the country. At that time, he face
many difficulties Saadat hasan manto decided to relocate to
Lahore Pakistan because of obscenity charges and the partition
of india mean Pakistan and India partition.

When he came to Lahore he met many others colleagues and

group to talk about literature, society, and politics in the Pak Tea
House. He also write many other books in 1950-1955 which talk
about sex,drug addiction, lust, political corruption and further
also he write about the negative attention from Pakistan
government. When he was living in Pakistan, he was accused
three more times for obscenity. Before, I was discussing
obscenity periods of Manto life. Did you know that Manto was
tried for obscenity six times; thrice before 1947 in British India,
and thrice after independence in 1947 in Pakistan, but never
convicted? In one of his trials, he said, "A writer picks up his pen
only when his sensibility is hurt."

Sometime saadat hasan manto write book and work in

newspaper because this is only source of income for this man.
When he came to Lahore from Bombay he lived near several
prominent intellectuals and thus found a stimulating
atmosphere around him. His only problem was how to cater for
his family. Because in this era, Lahore did not give too much
opportunities to earns. If we look in our history, these all thing
which are happen with the saadat hasan manto are happen with
all writers. They face many problems in the daily routine life
because they do not get too much money or facilities in the daily
life so for him a problem create and that problem is how to feed
the hunger? How to cater his family? Due to this reason the
satisfaction level of writers is hurter may be due to this reasons
they cannot achieve his in which way they think. So here we can
solves those problems by giving facilities and needs of such
people to get extra output and quality of writing because when
writers not think about the cater they would think about the
passion and his inner motivation and they achieve their best or
try to achieve his best. When a writer face such kind of situation
like “Manto began writing in order to provide for his family and
be able to drink every evening. For everything he wrote, he
would demand cash in advance” then imagine here what kind of
situation he was facing at that time when he was empty handed
or empty pocket. At that time , he just think about the money
not about the a good point of view of writing a book because a
specific time come in the mind of a writer to analyze the think
but in all these situation he is one of thousand people who
create awareness and expose the thought of a society. This is my
own thought or analysis maybe it is wrong. Here if I talk about
the few days about his life then sometime he was not willing to
write something but he was forced to write.

Manto is such a man who saw a period of before becoming

Pakistan and after becoming Pakistan. If we look in the history
of Pakistan in Agust 1947, it was the greatest mass movement of
humanity in history. In the partition of india and Pakistan,
fourteen million people moved and two million died as the
nation of Pakistan was created. In this partition, it turned former
muslims, Hindu, and sikh friend and neighbor’s against each
other due to some reason and that reason is religious. This
partition was very bloody and brutal, and to saadat hasan
Manto, a Muslim journalist, and short story writer living in
Bombay, it appeared maddeningly senseless. Though he was
very famous about writing short story before 1947, but the
stories he would go on to write about partition would come to
cement his reputation. In the age of 43, his working life was cut
short by an addiction to alcohol. Manto produced 20 collections
of short stories, five collections of radio dramas, three of essays,
two of sketches, one novel and a clutch of film scripts. He wrote
about sex and desire, alcoholics and prostitutes. In his
journalism, he predicted the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in
Pakistan. But it is for his stories of partition that he is best
remembered: as the greatest chronicler of this most savage
episode in the region’s history.

“The historian Ayesha Jalal, (who is Manto’s grand-niece) wrote

in her book about him, The Pity of Partition: “Whether he was
writing about prostitutes, pimps or criminals, Manto wanted to
impress upon his readers that these disreputable people were
also human, much more than those who cloaked their failings in
a thick veil of hypocrisy.” One story “smell” was about a sexual
encounter between a man and a prostitute. Manto was charge
with obscenity. If I talk about a story “Bu”, it story was about a
sexual encounter between a prostitute and a rich young man
who is intoxicated by the smell of her armpits. At that time
Manto was charged with obscenity but never convicted. “At that
time story of Manto were radical and they are still radical”says
the author and academic Preti Tanuja. “Manto does not shy
away from the idea that women have sexual needs and their
own sexual vision that has nothing to do with being in love with
someone else.” In “My Name is Radha” a male character is raped
by a woman; in “Thanda Gohst” (“Cold meat”) a Sikh man
returns home and is stabbed by his wife during sex when he
confesses to raping a corpse. “Reading Manto made you realise
that literature did not always have to conform,” says the author
Mohammed Hanif, whose work shares the black humour and
political bite of Manto, “It does not always have to tell polite
stories.” Here I have a question, Why we always hide the reality?
But if I taulk about today life then we always hide the reality of
our own self but we does not hide the reality of society. Why we
hide the reality of our own self? Becaue we do not want to
expose of our own self because this tell the other, what the
actually you are. If Manto expose the reality then, what was the
wrong? Because it help the other people what is actually our
society. Because, Many of us are blind folded. In the early time
Manto had been implacably opposed to partition and he did not
want to come in the new Pakistan. In one evening when he was
sitting with his colleagues in the newspaper offices where he
worked here Manto remarked that, were it not for the fact they
were friends, he would have killed Manto.