- Mansha Yaad
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For disambiguation also see Mansha Yaad, Muhammad Mansha Yaad and Yaad
Mohammad Mansha Yaad 
Born Muhammad Mansha
5 September 1937
Thatha Nustar, Farooqabad, Punjab, PakistanDied 15 October 2011 Pen name Yaad Occupation Writer, Playwright Nationality Pakistani Genres Fiction Subjects Literature Spouse(s) Farhat Nasim Akhtar Children Farukh Jamil, Noma Shabnam, Dr. Amir Shakeel and Kashif Naveed
manshayaad.comMansha 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.[1]
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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 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. [2]
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 Urdu and Punjabi 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.[3]
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.
Writing for Television
Junoon
Bandhan
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.
Porey Chand Ki Raat
Awaz
Literary Activities
Halqa Arbab e Zauq
Mansha Yad founded Halqa Arbab e Zauq, Islamabad, the first prominent literary organization in the Capital city in 1972.[4]
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.
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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
Further reading
See also
External links
References
Categories:- 1937 births
- People from Islamabad
- People from Lahore
- Urdu-language writers
- Punjabi-language writers
- Pakistani writers
- Pakistani television writers
- Pakistani novelists
- Urdu novelists
- Urdu television writers
- Punjabi novelists
- Pakistani short story writers
- Punjabi short story writers
- Urdu short story writers
- Pakistani television personalities
- Recipients of the Pride of Performance award
- Punjabi people
- Living people
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