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| Title | : | Train to Pakistan |
| Author | : | Khushwant Singh |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | February 11th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1956) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. India. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Asian Literature. Indian Literature |
Khushwant Singh
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.9 | 20984 Users | 1424 Reviews
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“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. One of these villages was Mano Majra.” It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the “ghost train” arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages of war.Point Books To Train to Pakistan
| Original Title: | Train to Pakistan |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.9 From 20984 Users | 1424 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books Train to Pakistan
This book completely makes it point, and that to quite loudly.The horrors of partition are depicted such that it will leave you with goosebumps. Nearly 6 decades after independence, and yet so much about the book is still relevant. The common man in both the countries is just a dumb spectator; who's made a fool of by those in power. If think about it, not much have changed. we have been fueled by unnecessary hatred which only cost innocent lives. We need to learn the true meaning of "FREEDOM",3 June 1947 Viceroy Mountbatten announces the plan for the Partition of India into two independent states. Independence Day for the new countries will be 14 and 15 August.Journalist : Do you foresee any mass transfer of population? Viceroy Mountbatten : Personally, I dont see it. Why did Jinnah and Nehru accede to such an insane, precipitous, huggermugger plan?The truth is that we were tired men and we were getting on in yearsthe plan for partition offered a way out and we took it. Nehru in
The book is based during the summer of 1947 while the whole country was shaken with the woes of partition & the riots between the Sikhs and Muslims residing at Manoj Majra, a simple village where peace used to prevail amongst the said communities.The main protagonist, Juggut Singh, was notorious in the whole village as a gangster whose days fleeted between the jail, his humble home & the fields where in the name of work or laze used to secretly meet his love.*This relationship itself is
"We climb to sublime heights on the wings of fancy. We do the rope trick in all spheres of creative life. As long as the world credulously believes in our capacity to make a rope rise skyward and a little boy climb it till he is out of view, so long will our brand of humbug thrive."I was going to give it a 3.5* rating. But then, I read the last few pages. And I was convinced why I could not give it less than a 4.1947. Partition. Millions of people crossed the frontiers to the side they thought
Probably one of the best works of fiction by Khushwant Singh and the Indo-Pak partition saga. Train to Pakistan is a classic story of human endurance and struggle through a mass movement. Freedom got us our own government, our own flag, our own anthem, our own country, but for a commoner he lost his own house, his own people, his own identity. The story is as simple and common as possible a small peaceful village, regular corrupt officials, ordinary ruffians and holy men. The partition wave
The Partition of 1947 has probably been one of the most horrific and traumatic events that Modern India has faced. Belonging to the State of Punjab, which suffered the most due to Partition, I've heard the bloodcurdling tales of that time from elders in the family.But, none of them as gory or visceral as Khushwant Singh's narrative about it.The book had been on my TBRs for a while, but what made me pick it up immediately was a train to very close to Pakistan - Amritsar. Lahore, one of the most
It is interesting to read historical novels where history is written as fiction.Here is a novel that tries to record a memorable phase of Indian history through fictional route but the essence is hardly lost in the process.....We come to know a village at brink of Sutlej that is littered with equal majority of Sikhs and Muslims living together since a long past ago.That is the time of partition, the summer of 1947. Muslims leave India and their exodus to Pakistan is not free from human
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