This article seeks to interpret Manto's short stories in the light of new hermeneutical concept of centre and margin. In classical hermeneutics, margin was considered to have been dependent upon centre but post structuralist theory, especially propounded by Jacques Derrida, has overthrown the old hierarchy by decentring innermost position of centre and peripheral status of margin. Surprisingly, themes, settings and focalisation of Manto's best short stories revolve, in some or other way, around what can be termed as the marginalised ones. Centre, wearing multiple disguises, claims and exercises a kind of metaphysical power over all what dwells outside it, while margin sticks upon what presents itself as corporeal and material. This article asserts that Manto's short stories, centring on the marginalised stratum of society, defy, disrupt, and shatter the central, metaphysical power strategies of Centre.