They were the "problem children" of the revolution. One was labeled a pornographer, one a scandal-monger, and one a traitor to the state.

In this episode of Armpit Intellectuals, we move beyond the statues and the postage stamps to perform a forensic autopsy on the Holy Trinity of Dissent: Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chughtai, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz. We’re tracking their lives from the smoke-filled rooms of the PWA to the lonely courtrooms of Lahore and the solitary cells of Montgomery Jail.

Why did the state fear a short story about a quilt? How did a poet turn the language of romance into a weapon of treason? And why did their own "progressive" peers eventually turn on them? Join Zahra and Bilal as they peel back the skin of South Asian resistance.