00775pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001800040245004100058260000900099300001600108362001000124520039200134650004100526650002800567773003400595180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aJalal, Ayesha  aA letter to India: in Manto's spirit  c2002  ap.4526-529.  a2 Nov  aOn the lines of Sadat Hasan Manto's facetious letters to Uncle Sam written at the height of the cold war when Pakistan was being wooed by the US as an ally to fight communism, a letter to prime minister Vajpayee.  This letter is a spirited assessment of the most recent standoff between India and Pakistan, peppered with rare insights that have always been Manto's halmark. - Reproduced.  aIndia - Foreign relations - Pakistan  aInternational relations  aEconomic and Political Weekly