Rape of Women in “Draupadi,” by Mahasweta Devi, and “Open It,” by Saadat Hasan Manto Where there is war, there is the rape and abuse of women. From the Trojan War to the Middle East conflict, rape has been a tactic of war. Rape is commonly viewed by society as a symbol of female degradation, female submission, and the stripping of honor and humanity. In the stories “Draupadi,” by Mahasweta Devi, and “Open It,” by Saadat Hasan Manto, the rape of women is a common theme. In Manto’s “Open It,” a young
name of a separate land. No other example comes close to brutality except this. Bombay was Manto's heaven, where he could be all "Happy". But after Partition the state of being happy came to an end. Manto was in Bombay when he heard the news of Pakistan: the British dividing Subcontinent at last. Manto would ask later after all the killings broken out around him "Now that we were free, had subjection ceased to exist? Who would be our slaves? Thousands of Hindus and Muslims were dying all around us
Saadat Hasan Manto Karan Aggarwal, 201201136 Saadat Hasan Manto (11 May, 19212 18 January, 1955) is the most know Urdu short story writer and script writer. One of his kind, his works represent the true face of the society to the society in its very raw form. The form is so raw, and often considered obscene and indecent by most of the people in his time, that he was tried for obscenity 6 times, thrice before independence and thrice after independence. Manto was the first one among Urdu
The 1947 partition of British India into two independent nations (India and Pakistan) was accompanied by enactments of violence unspeakable in their brutality and horror, leading Mushirul Hasan to label it a “bloody vivisection” (xii). Amongst the several atrocities at the time of partition were those committed specifically against women. Several women were raped, murdered, abducted and forced into marriage. They became the targets of horrific violence and their bodies became the sites over which
for personnel gains. Some even force religion onto others so that when the other one accepts his or her religion they can be praised in society. Saadat Hasan Manto, Munshi Premchand and Rabindranath Tagore with their short stories give an insight to certain kinds of people and psychological and social impact religion has on the society. In A Man of God, Manto writes about how a person with a religious persona has an authority over the society. The story talks about a Maulvi who visits the house of Chaudhry