ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We’d like to thank the editors of the following magazines for publishing some of these stories, essays, and condensed versions of my introduction: Harold Jaffe, Fiction International, for publishing ‘The Insult’; Donald Breckenridge and Jen Zoble, In Translation, for publishing ‘Hamid’s Baby’, ‘Mozelle’, and ‘Ten Rupees’ and for including ‘Hamid’s Baby’ in The Brooklyn Rail’s best fiction anthology; Giriraj Kiradoo, Pratilipi, for publishing ‘Janaki’, ‘Peerun’, ‘Why I Don’t Go to the Movies’, and ‘Women and the Film World’; Brigid Hughes, A Public Space, for publishing ‘Barren’, ‘Khushiya’, ‘Rude’, and ‘Siraj’; and Olivia Sears, Natasha Wimmer, and Jeffrey Yang, Two Lines, for publishing ‘Smell’.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Saadat Hasan Manto was born in what is now Punjab in 1912. An acclaimed Urdo-language short-story writer, he also worked as a journalist and wrote extensively for film and radio throughout India and Pakistan. He died in 1955.