Historian Ayesha Jalal discusses her new book, The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide. Jalal's book offers the first in-depth look in English at the influential Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955). Drawing on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as well as a trove of private letters, The Pity of Partition provides a intimate history of Partition and its devastating toll on the Subcontinent.