Saadat Hasan Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto Saadat Hasan Manto has a decent case to be viewed as the best South Asian author of the twentieth century. In his work, written in Urdu , he embodied the richness, the frenzy, the alcoholic daze of his time, when the country he cherished cut into two and set upon one another, siblings of all religions killing their newborn child nephews and assaulting their sisters-in-law.