In a culture obsessed with the passion and drama of romantic love, we often forget to celebrate our friendships, the constant constellations of our lives, witnessing and partaking in our joys and sorrows, even, and especially, the inevitable disappointments of romance.
wonderful piece! is it possible to link the original Urdu text of both essasys?
Unfortunately, we don't have the originals but you can find English translations of Chughtai's essay here: http://hindiurduflagship.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/my-friend-my-enemy.pdf
And Manto's essay here: https://shekhar.cc/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/manto.pdf
thank you so much 🙏🏽 and love the work yous team does.