Manto: Selected Stories
Date
August 2009
Credits
- Ishan Khosla 16 Photographer
- Ishan Khosla 16 Designer
Format
- Book Cover 226
Techniques
- printing 438
Locations Made
Sadat Hasan Manto has been called the greatest short story writer of the Indian subcontinent. He was born in 1912 in Punjab and became a radio and film scriptwriter, journalist, and short story writer. Manto's stories are vivid, dangerous, and troubling and slice into the everyday world to reveal its somber, dark heart.
The cover image has been shot in the pre-independence Crawford Market, evocative of the dark neo-Gothic structures that the British built and that goes with the gravity and grittiness of Manto's oeuvre.
Photography by Ishan Khosla.
