Saadat Hasan Manto was born on 11 May 1912, in Paproudi village of Samrala, in the Ludhiana district of Punjab.
He studied at Muslim High School at Amritsar where he twice failed his matriculation examination. In 1931 he got admitted to the Hindu Sabha College but dropped out after the first year due to poor results.
In Bombay, he started his work as an editor of Mussawir along with Nazir Ludhianvi and the magazine Samaj (Society). He also started to write dialogues and scripts for the Hindi film industry, working first for the Imperial Film Company and then for Saroj Movietone. In 1940 he published his second collection of short stories Manto Ke Afsanay (Stories of Manto) from Lahore.
