(Dis)Entangling Manto and Chughtai: Review of Manto and Chughtai: The Essential Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto, tr. Muhammad Umar Memon, and Ismat Chughtai, tr. M. Asaduddin. Penguin Random House India, 2019

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Notes

¹ Formed in 1935–36, the Progressive Writers’ Movement, or Progressive Writers’ Association, was a group of South Asian intelligentsia that was, in the words of Maia Ramnath, “the cultural wing of the South Asian left and the South Asian manifestation of an international anti-imperialist movement that in both periods viewed art, literature, and ideology as crucial components of building socialism and decolonization.” See Ramnath, Maia, “The Progressive Writers Association.”

² See Soutik Biswas, “Love jihad: The Indian Law Threatening Interfaith Love.”

³ See India Today Web Desk. “Deepavali is not Jashn-e-Riwaaz: Tejasvi Surya slams Fabindia ad.”

⁴ See Special Correspondent of The Hindu. “Narendra Modi picks August 14 to Recall Partition trauma.”