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Welcome to IndiStories, a new Podcast about creative short fiction. My name is Surinder Deol. In this Podcast, I’m going to present the work of highly gifted South Asian fiction writers. In this first episode, I present a classic of Indian literature titled “Toba Tek Singh” written by Saadat Hasan Manto. It is a story about India's partition. It captures the human tragedy involving the exchange of lunatics between India and Pakistan, and its ending shatters our hearts. Saadat Hasan Manto was born in 1912. He was a prolific writer and produced 22 collections of short stories. He worked at All India Radio in New Delhi and as a screenwriter in the Bollywood film industry, where he wrote many movies, including the famous Sohrab Modi film on Mirza Ghalib. In 1948 he moved to Pakistan, where he was tried for producing obscene literature. He passed away in 1955.