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- Title
Revisiting the Colossal Scene of Carnage of Partition through Train to Pakistan.
- Authors
Kaur, Gurpreet
- Abstract
The colossal scene of carnage of Partition has become the theme of innumerable works of literary art like, Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children (1980), Bhisham Sahni's Tamas (1974), Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in the Ganges (1965), and Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy Man (1988). There are also several short stories such as Toba Tek Singh (1955) by Saadat Hassan Manto, Urdu poems such as Subh-e-Azadi (Freedom's Dawn, 1947) by Faiz Ahmad Faiz. A non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that recorded the events surrounding the first Independence Day celebrations in 1947 is Freedom at Midnight (1975). It is indispensable to bring to one's mind the name of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan while revisiting Indian history, especially Partition history, through literature. This paper discusses nature of violence, characters involved and the ultimate message communicated in the novel Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh.
- Subjects
RUSHDIE, Salman, 1947-; MIDNIGHT'S Children (Book : Rushdie); COLLINS, Larry; LAPIERRE, Dominique, 1931-2022; FREEDOM at Midnight (Book); SINGH, Khuswant; TRAIN to Pakistan (Book); RIOTS in literature
- Publication
Language in India, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 3, p96
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article