‘I am not comfortable in the company of women, to the extent that I had agreed to a nikah about a year and a half ago but had not made any arrangements to bring my bride home.’
A weekend Eid visit to the cinema in Lahore prompts the translator Raza Naeem to remember Manto with a translation of his little-known, but prescient essay, ‘Pakistan ke Film'
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