Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and the most controversial short story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Sambrala in Punjab'd Ludhiana district. In a literary, journalistic, radio scripting and film-writing career spread over more than two decades, he produced 22 collections of short stories, one novel, five vollections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of personal sketches, and many scripts for films.
