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Book Name: Train to Pakistan
Author Name: Khushwant Singh
Language: English
Genre: Historical novel
About the Author:
Khushwant Singh was born in Punjab, Khushwant Singh was nurtured in Modern School, New Delhi, St. Stephen college, and passed from Government College, Lahore. He examined at King’s College London and was rewarded LL.B. From the University of London. He was yelled at the bar at the London main chapel.
Genre: Historical novel
About the Author:
Khushwant Singh was born in Punjab, Khushwant Singh was nurtured in Modern School, New Delhi, St. Stephen college, and passed from Government College, Lahore. He examined at King’s College London and was rewarded LL.B. From the University of London. He was yelled at the bar at the London main chapel.
Later working as a lawyer in Lahore High Court for eight years, he enrolled on the Indian Foreign Services upon the liberation of India from the British Empire in 1947. He was elected journalist in the All India Radio in 1951 and then paced to the Department of mass communication of UNESCO in Paris in 1956.
These last two professions motivated him to follow a literary profession. As a novelist, he was generously known for his trenchant secularism, humor, mockery, and acceptance of the love of poetry, his comparisons of social and behavioral aspects of Westerners and Indians are various literary and information magazines, as well as two magazines, through the 1970s and 1980s.
About the Book:
Segregated at birth, the bloodstained, most traumatic separation ever slated, 10 million refugees, nearly a million butchered in a blink of history eye. As one who listed those scalding portrayals proclaimed American photographer Margaret Bourke-White wrote, it was an unusual incident in the past of nations: the birth of clones -India and Pakistan. It was a birth escorted by strife and misery.
Sixty years on, her portrayals rescue to vex us earlier again, in another unique pairing with the 50th-anniversary version of the book that most vividly portrayed the eyesore, albeit thinly camouflaged as fiction: Khushwant sings seminal.
That was circulated in 1956 while Bourke-whites occurred in vitality magazine. This edition was never publicized and propagating them is like disinter a graveyard-the cover of the edition states: “ Disturbing portrayals inside”. Bourke -white transited through India in 1946-47, taping those awful days of carnage, mass rape, and millions who became refugees overnight.
About the Book:
Segregated at birth, the bloodstained, most traumatic separation ever slated, 10 million refugees, nearly a million butchered in a blink of history eye. As one who listed those scalding portrayals proclaimed American photographer Margaret Bourke-White wrote, it was an unusual incident in the past of nations: the birth of clones -India and Pakistan. It was a birth escorted by strife and misery.
Sixty years on, her portrayals rescue to vex us earlier again, in another unique pairing with the 50th-anniversary version of the book that most vividly portrayed the eyesore, albeit thinly camouflaged as fiction: Khushwant sings seminal.
That was circulated in 1956 while Bourke-whites occurred in vitality magazine. This edition was never publicized and propagating them is like disinter a graveyard-the cover of the edition states: “ Disturbing portrayals inside”. Bourke -white transited through India in 1946-47, taping those awful days of carnage, mass rape, and millions who became refugees overnight.
The portrayals in this edition are vicious in their viewing: harpies peeling human carcasses, the mass graves, the migration, the caravans full of mortal bodies, and others that apprehend the catastrophe of the time: in one, a Sikh, rubbing the bloodstains from his sword, the look in his eyes indicating the insanity of partition.
Khushwant's book apprehended that nonsense through the fictitious town of Mano Majra. Based on personal understanding, the edition was fiction established on fact. The character-juga, the town stud, and dacoit, Iqbal, the leftist ideologue, Hukum Chand we’re all too actual, as were the distinct patriotism and the gory denouement as the caravan to Pakistan entered with its massacre passengers.
Khushwant's book apprehended that nonsense through the fictitious town of Mano Majra. Based on personal understanding, the edition was fiction established on fact. The character-juga, the town stud, and dacoit, Iqbal, the leftist ideologue, Hukum Chand we’re all too actual, as were the distinct patriotism and the gory denouement as the caravan to Pakistan entered with its massacre passengers.
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Roli Pramod Kapoor, who conceptualized the wedding of Khushwant edition and Bourke – white portrayals, says it is to immortalize the recollection of those who died and a lesson for forthcoming generations. The wedding of prose and illustrations recaptured an eternity in the past that turned common human beings into bloodthirsty terrors.
It is an area, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the entrance of this classic story, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in an alliance for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the fantasy caravan arrives a silent, tremendous funeral train packed with bodies of thousands of refugees, sending the village its first taste of the uglinesses of the civil war.
It is an area, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the entrance of this classic story, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in an alliance for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the fantasy caravan arrives a silent, tremendous funeral train packed with bodies of thousands of refugees, sending the village its first taste of the uglinesses of the civil war.
Train of Pakistan is the tale of this unusual village that is plummeted into the abyss of spiritual hate. It is also the tale of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose affection sustained and exceeds the ravages of war.
My View:
Khushwant Singh is at his nicest in his novel, train to Pakistan. It is completely pristine in its elegance. The conclusion is bound to leave you in breaks, showing the alliance of Hindus and Muslims. This edition is an indicator of the modern state of affairs.
My View:
Khushwant Singh is at his nicest in his novel, train to Pakistan. It is completely pristine in its elegance. The conclusion is bound to leave you in breaks, showing the alliance of Hindus and Muslims. This edition is an indicator of the modern state of affairs.
Nonetheless, it is a highly recommend tale on the ill-fated vivisection of India and a heart-rending manuscript of a gory time that makes it an enthralling read. It captures the essence of Indian soil amazingly. It is quite surprising that what Mr Singh wrote during the partitioning years, is quite relevant even today. Cops were abusing their powers then and even now continue doing that.
People followed religiously blindly and still tend to do so. Nothing is changed much even with the advent of science and technology. Khushwant Singh created a very good story using his personal experience and his imagination. While I was reading this book some of the incidents shocked me. Partition has taken so many innocent lives.
My rating for the book is 5/5
My rating for the book is 5/5
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Written By - Muskan Gupta
Written By - Muskan Gupta
Edited By - Anamika Malik
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