Main chalta phirta Bombay hoon” [I’m a walking Bombay, on the move] — Saadat Hasan Manto’s famously quoted line sowed a few questions in our mind: Where exactly did one of the greatest writers of his time walk, have they changed nearly eight decades after he left his ‘second home’ for Lahore, and do they still reflect glimpses of his legacy? Zubair Azmi, director of Urdu Markaz and founder of the Bhendi Bazaar Research Academy, gives us a handy guide to Manto’s Bombay.

Zubair Azmi