Letters to Uncle Sam: Saadat Hasan Manto



Source: https://universalpoetries.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/letters-to-uncle-sam-saadat-hasan-manto-2/



Letters to Uncle Sam: Saadat Hasan Manto



Between 1951 and 1954, Saadat Hasan Manto wrote nine letters to Uncle Sam (America).  Only the first letter was written in 1951. The rest all seem to have been written in 1954. I say ‘seem to have been written’ because three of them bear no date.

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