Google doodle honours daring Pakistani writer Manto.

MULTAN -- :Google honoured the great Pakistani writer Saadat Hassan Manto to commemorate his 108th birth anniversary through its doodle on Monday, May 11.

Today's google doodle carried an illustration of the iconic short story writer, playwright by artist Shehzil Malik.

Malik shared on instagram her thoughts declaring Manto as her hero. She said: 'Today is Saadat Hasan Manto's 108th birthday and I was asked to draw the Google Doodle to commemorate the occasion.' 'Manto is a hero to me, so this was a huge honour. Go find the artwork on the Google homepage- and if you haven't read Manto, you need to get on that immediately!'

With 22 collections of short stories, a novel, five series of radio plays, three collections of essays and two collections of personal sketches, Manto set the courageous tone for progressive writing that mostly revolved around the agonies commoners had to face in the wake of partition of the subcontinent. His short stories and satire was mostly in Urdu...