Celebrating the Manto Centenary
- Shamim Hanfi, Jamia Millia Islamia | April 24, 2012
The Hindi Urdu Flagship at the University of Texas at Austin participated in a week-long festival to celebrate the birth centenary of Saadat Hassan Manto, a critical figure in twentieth century Urdu writing. Renowned Urdu scholar Shamim Hanfi was chief guest and delivered a number of fascinating lectures to HUF students and the wider UT community. In this informal talk, Hanfi responds to some preceding faculty and student papers, and gives a few thoughts on Manto himself.
Below are the faculty and student talks that preceded Hanfi:
- Featuring: Afsar Mohammad, Gwendolyn Kirk, Roanne Sharp, Sabeena Shaikh, Saif Kazim, Shamim Hanfi, Snehal Shingavi, Suzanne Schulz, Syed Akbar Hyder
- Topics: Censorship, Culture, Fiction, Language, Literature, Manto, Politics, Society, Urdu
