Not since Maupassant has there been a writer who could accomplish so much with such a clear and concise prose (a style living on today in the Indian short story anthologies edited by writer and scholar Khushwant Singh). With him lie buried all the arts and the mysteries of short-story writing… Under tons of earth he lies, wondering who of the two is the greater short-story writer, God or he.“ It may sound megalomaniac but there’s some truth in it. For fear of religious outrage his family refused to put an epitaph on his gravestone that Manto had written himself: „Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto.
Manto – that was one of the most famous and most controversial of modern Urdu writers, six times accused of obscenity before and after the partition of India in the early stages of his carreer best known as a reliable screen writer and film critic with a suprisingly pragmatic approach to the glamour world of Bollywood a fiercely productive professional who could work almost everywhere and hack out a new story stante pede if required to earn a quick buck an incorruptible observer whose respectless portaits of politicians, musicians or actors are as full of adminiration for their accomplishments as they are scathing about their human flaws a kind of diva among the Indian men of letters, a man of refined tastes and unpredictable outbursts of arrogance, sometimes embarrassingly vain with regard to his own work and jealous of the success of others, more often than not a pain in the ass for even his closest friends a humorist unforgotten for his „Letters to Uncle Sam“ with their iconoclastic view of US American politics and most of all: a writer who came very close to achieving his goal of being remembered as the greatest short story writer in history a story teller whose merits include much more than the blunt cruelty and absurdity of his partition stories and sketches that became kind of his trademark (the best-known of these, „Toba Tek Singh“, may be the most-reprinted short story in Indian/Pakistani literature). In the town of Shire, swamped by scores of thousands of displaced people, diesel was up 1,200%, flour 300% and salt more than 500%.In his moving memoir „Uncle Manto“ Hamid Jalal draws a distinctive line between the private man he knew and the public figure Manto. last week said cooking oil in Mekele had shot up more than 400% since June and diesel more than 600%. “I’m surviving by the help of family and friends like anyone else,” he said. He said one acquaintance died from lack of diabetes medication, and a young relative in the city’s outskirts starved to death. “According to colleagues in the medical and agricultural sector, hundreds (of people) are dying each day, that’s the estimation,” Mekele University lecturer Nahusenay Belay said.
says hospitals outside of Mekele have run out of nutrition supplies to treat them. children’s agency - 18,600 from February to August, compared to 8,900 in 2020. She is now taking only oxygen, nothing else.”Īcross Tigray, the number of children hospitalized for severe acute malnutrition has surged, according to the U.N. “She was doing OK, then the medication ceased. “It’s been three months since she came here,” he said. Hundreds of thousands are now displaced there, widening the humanitarian crisis. The government in Addis Ababa, fearing the assistance will end up supporting Tigray forces, imposed the blockade in June after the fighters retook much of Tigray, then brought the war into the neighboring Amhara and Afar regions. Instead, a new offensive by Ethiopian and allied forces has begun in an attempt to crush the Tigray fighters who dominated the national government for nearly three decades before being sidelined by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner.Įthiopia is one of the top recipients of U.S. threatens new sanctions targeting individuals in Africa’s second-most populous nation. Pleas from the United Nations the United States the European Union and African nations for the warring sides to stop the fighting have failed, even as the U.S. “Are people going to die in the hundreds and thousands?” he asked. He told the AP about his colleague’s suicide last month as well as the deaths of two acquaintances from hunger and a death from lack of medication.