Today's Google Doodle celebrates Manto.

The illustration was created for the writer's 108th birthday by Pakistani artist, Shehzil Malik.

Google is paying homage to one of the finest Urdu writers and poets of the 20th century with his own doodle.

Today would have been Saadat Hassan Manto's 108th birth anniversary. The search engine is commemorating the day with an illustration by Pakistani artist Shehzil Malik.

"I'm a big fan of Manto. He is a hero to me for pushing the envelope in Pakistan through his art (which I try to do and often get in trouble) so this was the perfect assignment! His stories are dark, beautiful, brutal, honest; once you read them, you can't forget them. He used his words as a mirror to society, to speak truth to power, and would not back down in the face of intimidation," shared Malik.

Manto was a daring icon, who often wrote unapologetically about taboo topics, especially the horrors surrounding the partition of the subcontinent.

With 22 collections of short stories, 1 novel, 5 series of radio plays, 3 collections of essays and 2 collections of personal sketches, Manto set the benchmark for...