Arif Abdul Matin, author of several
poetry collections Atish-i- Sayyal, Deeda-o-Dil and
Saleeb-i-Gham, being some of them, was a contemporary of
another noted poet, Zaheer Kashmiri, and had edited some
prestigious literary journals.
Arif Abdul Matin. Senior writers like
Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi acted as their
mentors. His Abbott Road house in front of Nishat Cinema
also afforded him the opportunity to live in the
proximity of writers like Sahir Ludhianvi and Hameed
Akhtar.
Thanda Gosht was published in magazine
Javed edited by Arif Abdul Mateen. >Both Manto
and Arif were prosecuted for this. When Ahmad Nadeem
Qasmi >published Manto's story Khol Do in
Naqoosh, he was warned and the paper's >issue
was banned. Both these stories depicted the black side of
the >post-partition period. All this
discouraged Manto as well as his publishers >who
were afraid of publishing his pieces
