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We’d like to thank the editors of the following magazines for publishing some of these stories, essays, and condensed versions of my introduction: Harold Jaffe, Fiction International , for publishing ‘The Insult’; Donald Breckenridge and Jen Zoble, In Translation , for publishing ‘Hamid’s Baby’, ‘Mozelle’, and ‘Ten Rupees’ and for including ‘Hamid’s Baby’ in The Brooklyn Rail’s best fiction anthology; Giriraj Kiradoo, Pratilipi , for publishing ‘Janaki’, ‘Peerun’, ‘Why I Don’t Go to the Movies’, and ‘Women and the Film World’; Brigid Hughes, A Public Space , for publishing ‘Barren’, ‘Khushiya’, ‘Rude’, and ‘Siraj’; and Olivia Sears, Natasha Wimmer, and Jeffrey Yang, Two Lines , for publishing ‘Smell’.

Saadat Hasan Manto was born in what is now Punjab in 1912. An acclaimed Urdo-language short-story writer, he also worked as a journalist and wrote extensively for film and radio throughout India and Pakistan. He died in 1955.