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Ramachandran was an artist with an epic vision

What is left behind by this artist par excellence, who was honoured with innumerable recognitions, is a huge legacy of art and scholarship

opinion

Published on Feb 12, 2024 04:04 PM IST

ByM Ramachandran

Roundabout: A Tryst with Translation

The upsurge of translation from Indian languages to English has created an interesting literary milieu, breaking the hierarchies of those writing in English due to the colonial legacy

TELLING TALES: Translators Arunava Sinha, Baran Farooqi and novelist Khalid Javed. (HT Photos)

cities

Updated on Apr 09, 2023 01:43 AM IST

ByNirupama Dutt

The CAA is a humane law. Do not get misled

The new law is for migrants, not citizens. Residents of the Northeast and Muslims have no reason to worry

Article 14 forbids class legislation, but allows for a separate class of people to be created by a law(Kunal Patil/HT Photo)

analysis

Published on Dec 22, 2019 07:50 PM IST

ByGajendra Singh Shekhawat

Manto and Chughtai: The Essential Stories, a collection of short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto and Ismat Chughtai published

The collection, by two of the most prominent Urdu writers of modern India, features some of the best known stories on themes such as communal violence, the Partition, sex, relationships, and more.

lifestyle

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 01:08 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

Famous friendships and reckoning: How to be a friend in times of social media

Happy Friendship Day 2019: Social media image is clearly a very difficult one to maintain for many but how about following some basics to be a real person, a real friend.

In the times of digital friendships, there are so many ways to express and show who stands where in your life.(Unsplash)

lifestyle

Updated on Aug 04, 2019 09:45 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Delhi | BySrishti Jha

Another biopic, another Nawaz

Mountain-man Dashrath ‘Manji’, Saadat Hasan ‘Manto’ and now Bal ‘Thackrey’, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui seems to have mastered the art of doing a biopic.

Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Writer Sanjay Raut and Amrita Rao in Lucknow.(Subhankar Chakraborty/HT Photo)

cities

Published on Jan 24, 2019 03:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | ByDeep Saxena

Top ten quotes about famous cities around the world, this World Cities Day

Can you fall in love with a city like you do with another human being or your pet or even a material possession (which seems to be the order of the day and more so as we ‘evolve’)? That’s a question I have trouble finding an answer to.

On World Cities Day, read quotes about famous cities around the world.(PrettyDesigns.com)

lifestyle

Updated on Oct 31, 2018 03:08 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySaumya Sharma

Review: Kitty’s War by Daman Singh

Set in a quaint railway colony in 1941 when the Japanese forces are advancing towards India, Daman Singh’s Kitty’s War is genuine in its words and message

An M3 Lee tank crosses a river to meet the Japanese advance in March 1944 during the Battle of Imphal.(IWM via Getty Images)

books

Updated on Oct 27, 2018 12:19 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPrerna Madan

Review: Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif

Reading Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds is a deeply cathartic exercise in a world gone strange and incomprehensible

A vintage WW2 poster of the US Marines. A more contemporary model crash lands in a camp somewhere in Pakistan in Red Birds.(Corbis via Getty Images)

books

Updated on Oct 12, 2018 08:14 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRevati Laul

Mumbaiwale: Walking down Manto’s memory lanes

Saw the movie? Read the books? Wondering how much of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Bombay still stands? Take a look

“If you haven’t been to Bombay, you might not believe that no-one takes an interest in anyone else,” Manto says in Bombay Stories.

cities

Updated on Sep 29, 2018 05:26 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRachel Lopez

Manto’s Bombay stories and Mumbai’s debt

Manto, the biopic based on the life and times of author, script-writer, and journalist Saadat Hasan Manto, has rekindled interest in the maverick man. His large oeuvre – hundreds of short stories, a novel, essays, letters, nearly 150 radio plays, dozens of film scripts, and dialogues – are characterised by what renowned novelist Salman Rushdie once described as “low-life fictions”, the trials and triumphs of everyday people, the urgent communal question, and textures and flavours of city life.

cities

Updated on Sep 27, 2018 12:02 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySmruti Koppikar

Manto and the outrage industry

“I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together,” Manto had once written.

cities

Updated on Sep 23, 2018 06:43 AM IST

ByDeepanjana Pal

Jalandhar girl Madhurjeet Sarghi plays Manto’s elder sister

Other films she has done with Siddiqui are Firaaq and Summer 2007.

cities

Updated on Sep 23, 2018 09:41 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNirupama Dutt

Manto movie review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui pours out a glassful of Manto

Manto movie review: Nawaduddin Siddiqui and Rasika Dugal deliver internalised performances in director Nandita Das’ biopic. Rating: 3.5/5.

Manto movie review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Saadat Hasan Manto.

entertainment

Updated on Sep 22, 2018 12:44 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRaja Sen, Mumbai

HT Picks

This week’s recommended reads include Mohammad Hanif’s much-awaited new novel, a book that presents Manto through the eyes of his friends and foes, and the translation of a Korean novel

This week’s interesting reads include Mohammed Hanif, Manto, and a Korean novel.(HT Team)

books

Updated on Sep 07, 2018 08:47 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Team

Excerpt: Manto Saheb; Friends and Enemies on the Great Maverick translated by Vibha S Chauhan and Khalid Alvi

Reproduced here is an essay on Manto by Ali Sardar Jafri

books

Updated on Sep 07, 2018 08:41 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAli Sardar Jafri

Nawazuddin Siddiqui says these days even rubbish films become massive hits

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who plays the late Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto in his next film, prefers when his films being appreciated by intelligent, educated people.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who plays the late Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto in his next, offered to do it just for Re 1. (YouTube)

entertainment

Published on Sep 06, 2018 03:03 PM IST

New Delhi | ByIndo-Asian News Service

Nawazuddin Siddiqui charged Re 1 for Manto, Rishi Kapoor did it for free

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who plays the late Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto in the film, offered to do it just for Re 1. Others like Rishi Kapoor, Javed Akhtar and Ranvir Shorey did it for free.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Saadat Hasan Manto.

entertainment

Updated on Aug 29, 2018 02:03 PM IST

Indo Asian News Service | ByHT Correspondent, Mumbai

Toba Tek Singh movie review: Pankaj Kapur disappoints, all eyes on Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s Manto

Toba Tek Singh movie review: “Upar di gur gur di annexe di bedhiyana di moong di daal of di Pakistan and Hindustan of di durr phitey mun” makes more sense than Ketan Mehta, Pankaj Kapur’s film.

Manto movie review: If only to hear Pankaj Kapur say, “Upar di gur gur di annexe di bedhiyana di moong di daal of di Pakistan and Hindustan of di durr phitey mun.”

entertainment

Updated on Aug 27, 2018 05:13 PM IST

Indo Asian News Service | ByHT Correspondent

Manto trailer: Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer is a film for our unbearable times

Nawazuddin Siddqui transforms into Manto in looks and in spirit in the first trailer for Nandita Das’ hard-hitting movie.

entertainment

Updated on Aug 15, 2018 10:26 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent, New Delhi

Tale of two sides: Book on mental scars of Partition, and a cursed heirloom

Psychiatrist Anirudh Kala’s ‘The Unsafe Asylum: Stories of Partition and Madness’ in interlinked episodes explores the impact of Partition on mental health in both countries, and even of the future generations.

books

Updated on Jun 30, 2018 11:30 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByNirupama Dutt, Chandigarh

I like to play characters which are complex and not cliched, says Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Nawazuddin Siddiqui has some interesting projects lined up. While he is playing a gangster in Sacred Games, he will be seen as Saadat Hasan Manto in a biopic. He is also playing Bal Thackeray in another biopic.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui is working in diverse projects.

entertainment

Updated on Jun 27, 2018 09:27 PM IST

Indo Asian News Service | ByIndo Asian News Service

Manto has power to transcend borders, says Tahir Raj Bhasin

Tahir Raj Bhasin came to limelight after playing a negative character in Mardaani. He will soon be seen in Manto.

Tahir Raj Bhasin plays Manto’s close friend in Nandita Das’ film.

entertainment

Updated on Jun 10, 2018 12:39 PM IST

Indo Asian News Service | ByIndo Asian News Service

Democracy under attack in India, says Manto director Nandita Das

Nandita Das feels that right-wing forces give a different spin to any social debate. Her directorial Manto will soon hit the screens.

Nandita Das’ Manto was recently screened at the Cannes Film Festival.(AFP)

entertainment

Updated on Jun 08, 2018 02:05 PM IST

Indo Asian News Service | ByIndo Asian News Service

Children give a whole new perspective: Samit Kakkad

Director Samit Kakkad’s film Half Ticket bagged the Teen Screen Jury main prize at the 47th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 2018

Director Samit Kakkad at the 47th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 2018(HTPHOTO)

entertainment

Updated on Jun 07, 2018 08:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByAnjali Shetty

I’m done with my quota of small roles, says Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Nawazuddin Siddiqui was active in Bollywood for 15 years, but he had to wait till 2012 to become a big name.

Nawauddin Siddiqui’s Manto has received appreciation in Cannes 2018.

entertainment

Updated on May 16, 2018 07:26 PM IST

Indo Asian News Service | ByIndo Asian News Service

The audience was with the film, says Rasika Dugal on Manto’s screening at Cannes 2018

Rasika Dugal went to the Cannes Film Festival even last year to release Manto’s first look.

Rasika Dugal plays Safiyah Manto in the film.

entertainment

Updated on May 15, 2018 01:35 PM IST

Indo Asian News Service | ByIndo Asian News Service

Cannes day 6: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan brings the glamour, Nawazuddin the gravitas

On the sixth day of the Cannes Film Festival, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan celebrated Mother’s Day with daughter Aaradhya, Sonam Kapoor boarded a plane and Nawazuddin won acclaim for Manto.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Aaradhya pose with Helen Mirren at Cannes.(Instagram)

entertainment

Updated on May 14, 2018 11:16 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent, New Delhi

Delhi this weekend: On Saadat Hasan Manto’s 106th birthday, watch two plays based on his stories

As Nandita Das’s movie Manto (2018), starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the titular role, heads to Cannes, people in Delhi can watch two plays based on Saadat Hasan Manto’s short stories at the India Habitat Centre this weekend.

One of the finest short story writers of modern Indian literature, Manto was born on May 11, 1912, in Ludhiana, Punjab.(Photo courtesy: Khwaab Tanha Collective)

lifestyle

Updated on May 11, 2018 09:56 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySupriya Sharma

Nawazuddin Siddiqui takes free speech hero Manto to Cannes Film Festival

Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s film Manto will be shown in the Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.

entertainment

Updated on May 07, 2018 02:18 PM IST

Agence France-Presse | ByAgence France-Presse

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Latest from saadat hasan manto

What is left behind by this artist par excellence, who was honoured with innumerable recognitions, is a huge legacy of art and scholarship

The upsurge of translation from Indian languages to English has created an interesting literary milieu, breaking the hierarchies of those writing in English due to the colonial legacy

The new law is for migrants, not citizens. Residents of the Northeast and Muslims have no reason to worry

The collection, by two of the most prominent Urdu writers of modern India, features some of the best known stories on themes such as communal violence, the Partition, sex, relationships, and more.

Happy Friendship Day 2019: Social media image is clearly a very difficult one to maintain for many but how about following some basics to be a real person, a real friend.

Mountain-man Dashrath ‘Manji’, Saadat Hasan ‘Manto’ and now Bal ‘Thackrey’, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui seems to have mastered the art of doing a biopic.

Can you fall in love with a city like you do with another human being or your pet or even a material possession (which seems to be the order of the day and more so as we ‘evolve’)? That’s a question I have trouble finding an answer to.

Set in a quaint railway colony in 1941 when the Japanese forces are advancing towards India, Daman Singh’s Kitty’s War is genuine in its words and message

Reading Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds is a deeply cathartic exercise in a world gone strange and incomprehensible

Saw the movie? Read the books? Wondering how much of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Bombay still stands? Take a look

“I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together,” Manto had once written.

Other films she has done with Siddiqui are Firaaq and Summer 2007.

Manto movie review: Nawaduddin Siddiqui and Rasika Dugal deliver internalised performances in director Nandita Das’ biopic. Rating: 3.5/5.

This week’s recommended reads include Mohammad Hanif’s much-awaited new novel, a book that presents Manto through the eyes of his friends and foes, and the translation of a Korean novel

Reproduced here is an essay on Manto by Ali Sardar Jafri

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who plays the late Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto in his next film, prefers when his films being appreciated by intelligent, educated people.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who plays the late Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto in the film, offered to do it just for Re 1. Others like Rishi Kapoor, Javed Akhtar and Ranvir Shorey did it for free.

Toba Tek Singh movie review: “Upar di gur gur di annexe di bedhiyana di moong di daal of di Pakistan and Hindustan of di durr phitey mun” makes more sense than Ketan Mehta, Pankaj Kapur’s film.

Nawazuddin Siddqui transforms into Manto in looks and in spirit in the first trailer for Nandita Das’ hard-hitting movie.

Psychiatrist Anirudh Kala’s ‘The Unsafe Asylum: Stories of Partition and Madness’ in interlinked episodes explores the impact of Partition on mental health in both countries, and even of the future generations.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui has some interesting projects lined up. While he is playing a gangster in Sacred Games, he will be seen as Saadat Hasan Manto in a biopic. He is also playing Bal Thackeray in another biopic.

Tahir Raj Bhasin came to limelight after playing a negative character in Mardaani. He will soon be seen in Manto.

Nandita Das feels that right-wing forces give a different spin to any social debate. Her directorial Manto will soon hit the screens.

Director Samit Kakkad’s film Half Ticket bagged the Teen Screen Jury main prize at the 47th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 2018

Nawazuddin Siddiqui was active in Bollywood for 15 years, but he had to wait till 2012 to become a big name.

Rasika Dugal went to the Cannes Film Festival even last year to release Manto’s first look.

On the sixth day of the Cannes Film Festival, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan celebrated Mother’s Day with daughter Aaradhya, Sonam Kapoor boarded a plane and Nawazuddin won acclaim for Manto.

As Nandita Das’s movie Manto (2018), starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the titular role, heads to Cannes, people in Delhi can watch two plays based on Saadat Hasan Manto’s short stories at the India Habitat Centre this weekend.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s film Manto will be shown in the Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.

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