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Atish Paray
AuthorSadat Hasan Manto
Original titleAtish Paray
LanguageUrdu
PublisherUrdu Bookstall (Lahore)[1]

Publication date

1936 (first edition)
Publication placeBritish India
Media typePrint

Atish Paray (Urdu: آتش پارے, lit.'Nuggets of Fire') is a collection of short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto.

Background[edit]

Atish Paray subtitled “a collection of several thought-provoking stories” was published in 1936 while Manto was living in Amritsar.[2] Two stories from this collection Tamasha - Manto's debut story followed by Taqat Ka Imtehan first appeared in a local weekly Khalq (Creation) by Abdul Bari Alig from Amritsar. The collection was however published from Lahore and Manto dedicated this collection to his late father.[2]

Content[edit]

There are eight stories in this collection:[1]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ first published in the Aligarh Magazine in March 1935[3]
  • ^ It was later included in Manto Ke Afsanay under the title Qasim with a slight change in the ending[4]
  • ^ also included in his prior collection Rusi Afsanay (Russian Stories)[5]
  • ^ first published under a pseudonym in Abdul Bari Alig’s Urdu newspaper Khalq (Creation)[6] and also included in his prior collection Rusi Afsanay (Russian Stories)[5]
  • ^ It was included in Manto Ke Afsanay[4]
  • References[edit]

    1. ^ a b Flemming 1985b, p. 152.
  • ^ a b Flemming 1985, p. 38.
  • ^ Flemming 1985, p. 7.
  • ^ a b Flemming 1985, p. 42.
  • ^ a b Flemming 1985, p. 36.
  • ^ Flemming 1985, p. 6.
  • Cited sources[edit]


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