Thnada Gosht is a short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto. The book was first published in a literary magazine in March 1950 in Pakistan. Manto was charged with obscenity for this story and faced a trial in criminal court.
The story is about the communal violence of 1947. Ishwar Singh, fails to make love to his mistress Kulwant Kaur. She suspects him of infidelity and and in fit of jealousy stabs him with his own dagger. While dying, Ishwar Singh admits his crime getting involved in riots which broke in his village, killing a family with same dagger and abducting a girl after breaking in their house and attempting to rape her, who was actually dead. Hence the title "Thanda Gosht".
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