High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Toba Tek Singh, written by Saadat Hasan Manto, is a short story, published in 1955, about inmates in a Lahore asylum who are to be deported to India - following the 1947 partition. The story is a "powerful satire" on the relationship between India and Pakistan. A film based on the play was made in 2005. The story is set two or three years after the 1947 partition, when the governments of India and Pakistan decided to exchange their Muslim, Sikh and Hindu lunatics. The story revolves around Bishan Singh, a Sikh inmate of an asylum in Lahore, who is from the town of Toba Tek Singh. As part of the exchange of lunatics Bishan Singh is sent under police escort to India, upon being told that his hometown Toba Tek Singh is in Pakistan, he refuses to go. Toba Tek Singh is a real town, now in Pakistan.