More vicious than the massacre at the Babusar Top was the muffled response of the Pakistani political leaders, rightwing intelligentsia and the military leadership
Follow up:
Pakistan continues its tragic journey down the xenophobic abyss. As this country gets over a blood-soaked Eid, let me recall a 44-word short story by Saadat Hasan Manto. He wrote:
“Ripping the belly cleanly, the knife moved in a straight line down the midriff, in the process slashing the cord, which had held the man’s Pyjamas in place. The one with the knife took one look and exclaimed regretfully, ‘Tut, tut, tut! … Mishtake!”
The inimitable late Khalid Hassan had drawn flak from critics for sanitising in his above translation not just the gory lines but the very message through which Manto was trying to awaken whatever was left of the pre-partition Indian Hindu and Muslim conscience. According to Alok Bhalla, “Manto is not merely taking note of a singularly absurd event, but is trying to draw attention to an infinite series of mindless and anonymous killings which have made life into a nightmare.”
No matter how sanitised Khalid sahib’s translation, it is simply impossible to miss the profoundly disturbing detail that when the perpetrator discovers, after cutting the pyjama drawstring, the circumcised status of his victim, he regrets killing one of his own community members.
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