The most widely read and the most translated writer in urdu. Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-) is also the most controversial: he was tried for obscenity no less than six times, both before and after the departure of the Britis...The most widely read and the most translated writer in urdu. Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-) is also the most controversial: he was tried for obscenity no less than six times, both before and after the departure of the British from india in 1947.