Toba Tek Singh (short story)

"Toba Tek Singh" (Urdu: ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھALA-LC:Ṭobah Țek SiṉghIPA:) is a short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto and published in 1955. It follows inmates in a Lahore asylum, some of whom are to be transferred to India following the 1947 Partition. According to a personal essay hosted at Columbia University by a scholar-in-training of Urdu literature, the story is a "powerful satire, and also a bitter indictment of the political processes and behavior patterns that produced [India's] Partition".