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By the Roadside

By the Roadside

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Saadat Hasan Manto
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A conversation, a litany, a prayer—one of these three will usually bail you out of a tricky situation. But there are times when all the three combined don’t hold enough power to keep the inevitable at bay.

Even as the woman offers all that she can, deep down she knows that what’s done is done. Her cries will disappear into a void just like everything else. She doesn’t know what else to do. What else can she do?

Manto’s genius lies in presenting the most complex characters and their circumstances in the simplest manner, and nowhere is this more evident than in By the Roadside. While the story was written more than half a decade ago, this powerful take on women in our country is still as relevant today.

Imprint: Penguin

Published: Jan/2018

Length : 15 Pages

MRP : ₹15.00

By the Roadside

(Penguin Petit)

Saadat Hasan Manto

A conversation, a litany, a prayer—one of these three will usually bail you out of a tricky situation. But there are times when all the three combined don’t hold enough power to keep the inevitable at bay.

Even as the woman offers all that she can, deep down she knows that what’s done is done. Her cries will disappear into a void just like everything else. She doesn’t know what else to do. What else can she do?

Manto’s genius lies in presenting the most complex characters and their circumstances in the simplest manner, and nowhere is this more evident than in By the Roadside. While the story was written more than half a decade ago, this powerful take on women in our country is still as relevant today.

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Paperback / Hardback
Ebooks

Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto has been called the greatest short story writer of the Indian subcontinent. He was born in 1912 in Punjab and went on to become a radio and film-script writer, journalist, and short story writer. His stories were highly controversial and he was tried for obscenity six times during his career. After Partition, Manto moved to Lahore with his wife and three daughters. He died there in 1955.

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