Hasan Manzar
Birth—1934
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Hasan Manzar is the pen name of Syed Manzar Hasan. He is doctor by profession, and is settled in Hyderabad, in Pakistan where he runs a private Psychiatrist Clinic he has published several collection of short stories. In an interview aired by the voice of America in 1995 Hasan Manzar remarked, My stories are inspired by individuals- ordinary men and women affected by some sorrow, happiness, or longing. When I encounter them, they, as well as the environment in which the reality is embedded, become part of my thinking.Such Individuals are not imagined beings. I guess what I am trying to say is that I’m as far away as anyone can get from any kind of romanticism. Subjects, Unless they are firmly grounded in objective reality, leave me cold, and I almost never feel motivated to probe them in my fictions. What moves me, instead are real, flesh-and-blood people, victims of oppression and violence, scared by pain and injustice.And it does not matter where they come from. The fact that Hasan Manzar must resemble Prem Chand in his concern for the disenfranchised and disinherited is indisputable. Nonetheless his concern is more wide-ranging than Prem Chand’s is not restricted by geographical boundaries. Syed Manzar Hasan, Whose signs his creative work as Hasan Manzar, was born on 4th march 1934 in Hapur, A town in the district of Meerut (U.P., India). His father’s maternal grandfather has participated in the 1857’s war of independence and also angered the British that they put a prize on his head. He consequently escaped to the foothills of the Himalayas and spends the remaining years of his life in hiding. Hasan Manzar spent his childhood in Muradabad, a place famous for his copper work. There were many factories and the workers, once a week holds a mushai’rra is one of the rooms, leisurely eating some sweet meat and puffing on their huqqas. Hasan Manzar, Against his father’s wishes was admitted in a school where pupils were made to sit on the coarse rush mats. He despised the school and started skipping classes, roaming around in the factory area and the town’s crowded side streets observing rather than studying books. Hasan Manzar was later admitted at Hewett Muslim High School, which is located on the bank of Ram Ganga. Across from the school was the small end Dingy train station of KatGhar, and beyond it farm fields and forests, he remarks: I Have Always Found The rural life more appealing than the city life. Hasan Manzar graduated from the high school in Lahore. And studied for the next three years first at Foremen Christian College and then at Islamiya College. Subsequently he enrolled in King Edward Medical College and earned a degree in medicine. He moved to Karachi and took a job in a hospital. Subsequently he worked as a Surgeon on a Dutch Merchant Ship and as in-charge of a Hospital, which specialized in epidemic disease. His next employment was as junior obstetrician and Gynecologist in Saudi Arabian Hospital. This itinerant existence has given him this wonderful ability for his higher studies; he went To Scotland earning two separate postgraduate degrees in psychiatry, From Edinburgh. But he didn’t return to pakistan when done, instead he went to Malaysia falling in love with it’s red earth. He taught in the department of psychological medicine at Kuala Lumpur, and also carried his Medical research, then he returned to Pakistan, where he didn’t settled in Karachi but once again choose a city which was considerably smaller, and was in the close vicinity of forests and agricultural fields. He says ” I have been writing all along and have had too abundant a goodly number of stories half finished because of the demands of my profession which often leaves me little or no time.” He credits his mother for his thirst for good books. “Most classics my mother had related to me in the form of stories already when I was little and she is also responsible for developing in me a taste of good movies as well as the fondness for religion. My father Syed Mazhar Hasan, did the same only on a larger scale, My wife Dr. Tahira Manzar is also very fond of reading good literature. I am a religious man painfully shy and reclusive. I easily loose my way in cities though not in the forests and mountains. A field of my owns some animals and rights beside them my Clinic; this is what I have always wished for.”  حسن منظر کئی ناول لکھ چکے ہیں۔ ’’انسان، اے انسان‘‘ ان کا تازہ ترین ناول ہی۔ اس میں کوئی شک نہیں کہ ان کے فن کی بہترین نمائندگی افسانوں میں ہوتی ہی۔ بطور افسانہ نگار ان کا مرتبہ کسی لحاظ سے انتظار حسین اور اسد محمد خاں سے کم نہیں۔انسان، اے انسان Hasan Manzar: An Introduction
Fariq Hassan By his own admission, Syed Manzar Hasan, who writes under the pen name of Hasan Manzar, comes of a north Indian middle class family. His great-grandfather carried a price on his head for his involvement in the 1857 War of Independence—otherwise referred to as the Great Mutiny—against the English. Luckily, he was never caught and escaped imperial wrath. Hasan Manzar is probably not very well-known, as his conspicuous absence from the literary Urdu critical scene would suggest.
Hasan Manzar — neglected chronicler of man | Mohammad Umar Memon | 26 Jan 2014 | Dawn By his own admission, Syed Manzar Hasan, who writes under the pen
name of Hasan Manzar, comes of a north Indian middle class family. Hasan Manzar: An Introduction | Faruq Hasan | Annual of Urdu Studies ’’زندگی میں کوئی چیز اگر نفرت کیے جانے کے لائق ہے، تو وہ نفرت ہے۔‘‘ یہ قریہ قریہ گھوم کر کہانیاں اکٹھی کرنے والے ایک جید تخلیق کار کے افسانے کا ابتدائیہ ہے۔ ’’رہائی‘‘ کا ابتدائیہ، جو ایسے ادیب کے قلم سے نکلا ہے، جس کے جملوں کی بُنت میں نیا پن ہے۔ جو رموزواوقاف کے برتاؤ کو کلا کا درجہ دے چکا ہے۔ جدید معاشرت کو گرویدہ بنالینے والی تفصیلات کے ساتھ پیش کرتا ہے۔ معاشرتی تنوع کا بھرپور اظہار دیکھنا ہے، تو اُن کی کہانیاں پڑھیے۔ ڈاکٹر حسن منظر سے خصوصی مکالمہ
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