Why Bombay was the city Manto loved and lost – Times of India

Nine years before he died in Lahore, Saadat Hasan Manto was forewarned by an astrologer in Bombay — as the city was then called — that the next couple of years would be detrimental to his life and then all would be well. The controversial Urdu writer, in 1946, was at the peak of his film career in a city he loved unequivocally and called his other home.