31-05-2005

Manto’s Historic Typewriter Given to Lahore College

via jang.com.pk

The Urdu typewriter used by legendary Urdu short-story writer Saadat Hasan Manto has been donated to Govt. College Lahore. … this historical typewriter used by two most important literary legends of Urdu literature would be put on display at the Govt. College Lahore. During his controversial two-decade career, the leading Urdu short-story writer of the twentieth century Manto published twenty-two collections of stories, seven collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, and a novel. His topics ranged from the socio-economic injustice …