This even t is in collaboration with the Department of Asian Studies.
While depicting the tragic events of partition through his bri
lliant fiction writing\, Manto stretched the
limits of socially approv
ed norms of storytelling. His unconventional lifestyle too was the mirror i
mage of
his writings as if he was a character of one of his own storie
s. The ultimate shock came when he decided
to leave India to settle do
wn in Pakistan\, a land unknown to him. The move that was surprising for ev
eryone was in fact rather typical of him\; stretching the limits – crossing
the borders.
Krešimir Krnic is a senior lecturer i n Sanskrit\, Hindi and Urdu languages and literatures at the Department of Indology and Far-Eastern Studies\, University of Zagreb. He has researched on Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa analysing elements of oral poetry and classical liter ature. Apart from the classical Indology\, he has also worked on contempora ry Hindi-Urdu literature and translated some prominent Hindi-Urdu authors i nto Croatian. For past decade\, Krnic has been actively exploring the life and works of Manto and introducing him to Croatian literary circles. He pub lished Croatian translation of Manto’s stories\, first ever collection of t ranslation from any Urdu author into Croatian language. The collection was highly acclaimed and very well received by general public. In his effort to introduce Manto to Croatia\, Krnic has created a lecture-cum-performance o n Manto and his writings. He has been invited by various libraries and univ ersities in Croatia to present the lecture-cum-performance as a part of pro motional tour for the translation of Manto’s writings.