Mansha Yaad
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For disambiguation also see Mansha Yaad, Muhammad Mansha Yaad and Yaad
Mansha Yad, (Urdu : منشا یاد), was a distinguished writer
and playwright
from Punjab, Pakistan
. He received Pride of Performance
in 2004 from the government of Pakistan
. He has won many other awards from many organizations across the globe.
His first short story appeared in 1955 & his first collection of stories was published in 1975. He has been continuously contributing Urdu and Punjabi stories to literary magazines. He has by now published 10 collections of short stories including one in Punjabi. A Novel in Punjabi Tanwan Tanwan Tara and many TV Serials & plays are also at his credit.
He was married in Lahore to his cousin Farhat Nasim Akhtar in 1960. He has one daughter and three sons. His eldest son Farrukh Jamil is Vice Principal at Army Public School & College Rawalpindi and daughter Noma Shabnam is also teaching in a Model College for Girls in Islamabad. His son Dr. Amer Shakil is a Professor of Medicine at The University of Texas, Dallas, USA. The youngest son Kashif Naveed is Assistant Manager in a National Newspaper/ TV Channel in Islamabad.
Mansha Yaad joined the Pakistan Government Service in 1958 in PWD rehabilitation in Rawalpindi
and Murree
for about two years (1958–1960) as a Sub Engineer and by 1960 started working with the Federal Capital Commission which was later converted into Capital Development Authority (CDA), Islamabad as an Sub Engineer. He served as Asstt. Engineer ,Executive Engineer, Public Relations Officer & Chief Complaints officer over time and retired as an Depputy Director in 1997.
After his retirement he lived in Islamabad
at his residence known as “Afsana Manzil” ( Urdu: منزل افسانہ ) ( Tanslated: “Fiction Destination”) and is actively invested his time towards literature and getting involved in literary gathering as well as writing on encouragement of topics such as magnificence in life and significance of justice for printed and electronic media. Mr Mansha Yaad died from a heart attack on October 15, 2011 in Islamabad.
and Punjabi
poetry and literature along with his duties towards his job.
Frank O'Conner has written somewhere: short story is the fiction of submerged population groups. 'Skin and Soil' literally has many a tale to tell of those submerged groups discontent, complainant of the soil they tread on and were fashioned from. To keep themselves compact, and stem the rot that is howling outside to deshape them is 'life' for the people that populate Skin and Soil. What can they make from the soil they've been destined with! Void. Destined to dote on things not their live under laws framed by others, their world is cruelly deterministic. The feeling which overwhelms one traveling through Mansha story scape is: God, what a man! He is never shell-shocked. Stealing some micro-moment from an uneasy truce in human fray he sits aside and starts scribing fresh scenes of a never-to-end epic.
Yaad
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Mansha Yad, (Urdu : منشا یاد), was a distinguished writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
from Punjab, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. He received Pride of Performance
Pride of Performance
Pride of Performance , is one of the highest civil award given and conferred by the Pakistan Government to Pakistan's citizens in recognition of distinguished merit in the fields of Literature, Arts, Sports, Medicines, and Science for civilians in most particular cases.The announcement of civil...
in 2004 from the government of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. He has won many other awards from many organizations across the globe.
His first short story appeared in 1955 & his first collection of stories was published in 1975. He has been continuously contributing Urdu and Punjabi stories to literary magazines. He has by now published 10 collections of short stories including one in Punjabi. A Novel in Punjabi Tanwan Tanwan Tara and many TV Serials & plays are also at his credit.
Personal Life and Education
Muhammad Mansha Yad was born in 1937 in Thattha Nushtar, a village close to Farooqabad, earlier known as Sachha Soda. He did his matriculation from Hafizabad and got a diploma in engineering from Rasul College. He passed examinations of Fazil-e-Urdu in 1964, Bachelors in 1965, Masters in Urdu in 1967 and Master in Punjabi in 1972 from University of the Punjab.He was married in Lahore to his cousin Farhat Nasim Akhtar in 1960. He has one daughter and three sons. His eldest son Farrukh Jamil is Vice Principal at Army Public School & College Rawalpindi and daughter Noma Shabnam is also teaching in a Model College for Girls in Islamabad. His son Dr. Amer Shakil is a Professor of Medicine at The University of Texas, Dallas, USA. The youngest son Kashif Naveed is Assistant Manager in a National Newspaper/ TV Channel in Islamabad.
Mansha Yaad joined the Pakistan Government Service in 1958 in PWD rehabilitation in Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
and Murree
Murree
Murree city is a popular hill station and a summer resort, especially for the residents of Rawalpindi/Islamabad, and for the cities of the province of Punjab, Pakistan...
for about two years (1958–1960) as a Sub Engineer and by 1960 started working with the Federal Capital Commission which was later converted into Capital Development Authority (CDA), Islamabad as an Sub Engineer. He served as Asstt. Engineer ,Executive Engineer, Public Relations Officer & Chief Complaints officer over time and retired as an Depputy Director in 1997.
After his retirement he lived in Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
at his residence known as “Afsana Manzil” ( Urdu: منزل افسانہ ) ( Tanslated: “Fiction Destination”) and is actively invested his time towards literature and getting involved in literary gathering as well as writing on encouragement of topics such as magnificence in life and significance of justice for printed and electronic media. Mr Mansha Yaad died from a heart attack on October 15, 2011 in Islamabad.
Beginning of Writing Career
As he had literary taste from the childhood and started writing stories & poems for children magazines when he was student of seventh class, right after completing his matriculation he started writing short stories for several famous and known magazines. It was this passion for literature that kept him connected to UrduUrdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
and Punjabi
Punjabi language
Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...
poetry and literature along with his duties towards his job.
Mansha and Yaad
As a youngster he had a keen interest towards poetry and after considering several pen names choose “Yaad”. His responsibilities towards his job allowed him lesser time to stay involved in writing and slowly drifted him apart from poetry, however he kept the pen name considering his return to poetry. As he says himself “Didn’t knew when smoke may start rising from the poem kiln again”.Writing for Print Media
In the name of creativity shot story writers triggered the smoke guns of confusion and draped their sordid 'art' in style, all the while knowing that style is a relative entity, if entity at all. Style is what is peculiar to a story. Stories neither lend nor borrow styles. But a style flaunter finds comfort in forgetting these facts. He is in fact jealous of his own creation. He chokes the story with style and himself wears the style badge in style. Enters Mansha Yad. He Came, he saw and though he did not conquer, was prudent enough to be sans style.Band Muthi Main Jugnoo
Band Muthi Main Jugnoo (Urdu : بند مٹھی مین جگنو) (Translated : Glow-worms in a closed-Fist) was his first collection of short stories. Though linear, skin deep, much promise in those short stories. Naively crafted, these stories exuded a sincerity of purpose, truth and above all a lingual exactitude which helped bring back to story reading the lost joy which makes one grateful that one is alive.Maas aur Mitti
Maas aur Mitti (Urdu : ماس اور مٹی), decidedly one f the significant few short-story collections in last two decades. It put a print of mastery against Mansha's name. Urdu short story had in one leap left behind 'symbolical wastes.'Frank O'Conner has written somewhere: short story is the fiction of submerged population groups. 'Skin and Soil' literally has many a tale to tell of those submerged groups discontent, complainant of the soil they tread on and were fashioned from. To keep themselves compact, and stem the rot that is howling outside to deshape them is 'life' for the people that populate Skin and Soil. What can they make from the soil they've been destined with! Void. Destined to dote on things not their live under laws framed by others, their world is cruelly deterministic. The feeling which overwhelms one traveling through Mansha story scape is: God, what a man! He is never shell-shocked. Stealing some micro-moment from an uneasy truce in human fray he sits aside and starts scribing fresh scenes of a never-to-end epic.
Khala Andar Khala
Khala Andar Khala (Urdu : خلا اندر خلا)(Translated : Void within Void), Mansha's third collection of short stories was an expansion of 'Skin and Soil' theme, some melancholic beings living away a lachrymose life. Same ferreting out of love from environs whose love have been pilfered by birds, animals and insects.Rehein
A memorable drama by PTV Lahore centre in 1999 after Waris and an overall a great production. Based on Punjabi novel “Tanwa Tanwa Tara” by Mansha Yaad. The drama focuses on different societal issue of people both living in urban and rural areas such as the value of education, culture and justice.Halqa Arbab e Zauq
Mansha Yad founded Halqa Arbab e Zauq, Islamabad, the first prominent literary organization in the Capital city in 1972.Other Literary Organizations
He also founded some other literary organizations such as Likhnay Walon Ki Anjuman, Rabta, Bazame Kitab & Fiction Forum in Islamabad enriching the newly built city literarily & culturally.Translations
Awards and Recognitions
- Baba Farid Adabi Award for Best Novel Writer Award, 2006
- Life Time Achievement Award at 12th International Punjabi Conference, 2005
- Pride of Performance for Novel and Short Story Writing, By Pakistan Government, 2004
- Life Time Achievement Award by Writers Forum Islamabad, 2004
- Punjabi Adbi Culture Sangat Award 2004
- Awarded by Punjabi Likhari Forum UK for Literary Work 2004
- Exceptional Performance Award by Sadai Adab International DFW Metroplex UK 2004
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