A fitting tribute

What makes him compelling is his ability to cut directly through and address the banality and the ordinariness of hatred

I saw an interesting movie this week, made by Nandita Das on the writer Saadat Hasan Manto. He was an unusual man, who had a brief writing career and was forgotten for decades. Manto was of Kashmiri origin but from Punjab. He was a college dropout (having failed in Urdu) and came to Mumbai where he was a film journalist.

He also wrote movies, I think 11 scripts in all, but none of them was a hit and none of them has survived even as a cult classic. By all accounts this is not the career of someone special. It