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What people Say: Srinivas

every time i want to write a review, i just, struck, plain and simple. but this time i decided to write anything or something. why i gave this book five stars?. because its an Indian literature? and about us- Indians?. no, certainly not, because its about characters, which are, u know, are fictitious, but situated in in non-fictitious and hard-core reality, struggle to maintain balance consistently between whats good and bad. is a story about the violence dur every time i want to write a review, i just, struck, plain and simple. but this time i decided to write anything or something. why i gave this book five stars?. because its an Indian literature? and about us- Indians?. no, certainly not, because its about characters, which are, u know, are fictitious, but situated in in non-fictitious and hard-core reality, struggle to maintain balance consistently between whats good and bad. is a story about the violence during Hindustan and Pakistan creation(1947). so naturally we can assume it as a story about Hindu-Muslim communal violence, where there are some good people and bad people in both parties, some heroes and some villains also there, good people trying to save good people from opposite side, people turning bad towards their own side people. In between all this chaos, there was a character, who was a magistrate, held high position, not by politically, but socially in the minds of illiterate and socially under achievers, but good people. He picked a sixteen or less years old girl (she herself not sure about her age) to have physical sex and she reminded him as his dead daughter and he drove it from his conscious mind by drinking whiskey. This man became responsible to save hundreds of people (not related to him by blood, caste, religion and by any other social means except they are humans) and to stop to turn a train into corpse carrier. a dacoit socially a wrong man and morally good one, fallen love with a girl of opposite side(according situation the, one side had to kill opposite side), also pregnant-ed her, and also sacrificed himself(physically means killed) to save her and to stop to turn a train into corpse carrier.


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Rachel Rueckert

This book, particularly this version with photographs from Margaret Bourke-White (a pioneer in photojournalism) was fantastic. It is short but a powerful story about the Partition of India in 1947â€”an event I am sorry to say I had not known much about until coming on this field study to India. I began it on my own train ride to Pakistan. Okay, so maybe not Pakistan, but a train to Amritsar and the Pakistan border. That has to count for something, right? Reading this during that experience both impa This book, particularly this version with photographs from Margaret Bourke-White (a pioneer in photojournalism) was fantastic. It is short but a powerful story about the Partition of India in 1947â€”an event I am sorry to say I had not known much about until coming on this field study to India. I began it on my own train ride to Pakistan. Okay, so maybe not Pakistan, but a train to Amritsar and the Pakistan border. That has to count for something, right? Reading this during that experience both impacted my experience and my reading. The Indian train system itself is something to marvel at. When this still functioning colonial train first pulled up to the station I just stared. People hanging out of windows, out of the open door frames, crammed to the roof. I think that Khushwant Singhâ€™s description was remarkably parallel to my journey. Compartments made for fifty with â€œalmost two hundred people, sitting on the floor, on seats, on luggage racks, on trunks, on bed rolls, and on each other,â€• the oppressive â€œheat and smellâ€¦ tempers frayed [because] someone had spread himself out too much or had trod on anotherâ€™s foot on the way to the lavatoryâ€• (59). All of the above happened on the short two hour crawl to Amritsar. But as I started to read more I thought more about my first train ride. Amritsar probably had the highest volumes of trains come through filled with dead corpses from both sides of the Pakistan border. Could my train, my very seat, once been full of dead bodies? My experience in Amritsar was probably most profoundly altered from this reading at the Indian Pakistan border. Only 30 minutes away from the Golden Temple, it is something of a tourist attraction. There are two triumphant looking arches on both sides and two gates in between the two dividing the countries. Each side has a few rows of hot cement stadium seating for people to come and observe the lowering of the flags ceremony conducted by the military. People were taking turns running their countries flags to the middle gates and back, blazing their own music, and having competitions to see who could hold out the longest shout. At the bottom of the stadium on the Indian side there were people dancing and screaming, â€œHindustan, Hindustan!â€• Some of my friends joined them. I stayed in my seat.


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I couldnâ€™t get over the fact that we were celebrating this great divide. The ceremonies were identical on either side. Everything seemed the same expect for one thing. One big thing. Religion.

Jibran

One of the earliest English language novels to capture the horrors of the Indian Partition of 1947. Since then it has achieved classic status in the history of Subcontinental literature and for right reasons. As independence and with it Partition took reality the Punjabis become desperate to learn about their fate. The province of Punjab (like Bengal on the Eastern borders) was to be cut in half between its Muslim majority population and Hindu-Sikh majority population. Those who found themselves One of the earliest English language novels to capture the horrors of the Indian Partition of 1947. Since then it has achieved classic status in the history of Subcontinental literature and for right reasons. As independence and with it Partition took reality the Punjabis become desperate to learn about their fate. The province of Punjab (like Bengal on the Eastern borders) was to be cut in half between its Muslim majority population and Hindu-Sikh majority population. Those who found themselves on the wrong side paid the price when in a village, where the story is set, neighbours and long terms friends turned against one another not knowing to which new country the village had gone, since it was on the border and had a fairly mixed population. The inanity and mindlessness of the conflict is cleverly depicted throughout the novel especially in a case when Iqbal, on the run, finds shelter in a mosque. His is a name that at that time passed for both Hindu and Muslim, with only the surname giving away his background. So originally became in the mosque. A trainload of corpses that came in from areas that were awarded to Pakistan triggers a chain reaction of riots in cities and villages where peace had hitherto prevailed. The story shows how one small incidence in a faraway town can start up a massive bloodshed in places where, despite tensions, people had lived peacefully before but now must shed one another's blood in the name of the new countries that existed only as arbitrary lines drawn by Imperial cartographers.


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Ananya Chaudhuri

Train to Pakistan is a book about the horrors of civil war and how a small peaceful village finally becomes a part of religious hate and communal violence. It depicts the myriads of human emotions which arise in troubled times and portrays how nothing is concrete. Khushwant Singh makes his point with this book that there is no categorical distinction of a person as good or bad and that even the best of relationships, which are built upon the virtues of comradeship and empathy, can be totally eng Train to Pakistan is a book about the horrors of civil war and how a small peaceful village finally becomes a part of religious hate and communal violence. It depicts the myriads of human emotions which arise in troubled times and portrays how nothing is concrete. Khushwant Singh makes his point with this book that there is no categorical distinction of a person as good or bad and that even the best of relationships, which are built upon the virtues of comradeship and empathy, can be totally engulfed in troubled times by selfishness, intolerance, hypocrisy and falsehood. It also portrays that the test of ones character is only in tough times- via the contrast of the two lead characters of the novel. Whilst one, who is projected throughout the book as a man with sharp but logical judgements and respected for his capability to revolutionize, fails to take action when he is presented with an opportunity, the other, who has been portrayed as a typical badmash (bad/criminal), trouble-maker and fails to conform to socially-acceptable standards, sacrifices for much greater causes such as love, loyalty and humanity... Khushwant Singh is a brilliant raconteur and his choice of words and the way he describes each action and thought of a character is extremely lucid, deeming this book a brilliant read even from a literary point of view.

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Khushwant Singh was one of the most popular authors in India. Serious literary as well as light humorous fiction, journalism etc he was everywhere. And even if you are not a reader, you need to love him for him for his humor, he actually came up with his Khushwant Singh was one of the most popular authors in India. Serious literary as well as light humorous fiction, journalism etc he was everywhere. And even if you are not a reader, you need to love him for him for his humor, he actually came up with his brand of jokes â€“ the Santa-Banta jokes. * â€˜Train to Pakistanâ€™ is the best novel about the subcontinent that Iâ€™ve read this far. It is about religious riots in and around Punjab at the time of independence of the country in which an estimated 14 million people were migrated over something as fictional as God. 2 million were killed. You know how Dawkins talks about a world without religion? well there you have it, 2 million lesser deaths which includes children and raped women. All done in sweeet name of God The few trains from either side that would cross the border were always overcrowded â€“ Singh estimates a typical train with about a thousand people in it and another four-five hundred on roof. The train would be stopped mid-way by rioters, and by the time it crossed the border â€“ it would be full of death bodies. You know another thing about a world without religion â€“ lesser political boundaries. Nations are another piece of fiction we could do without. It is the childish for people to fight for something (their nation) for a century and then as soon as you get it â€“ divide it into pieces. If you think â€˜childishâ€™ is not the right word, think of last time you judged between two children who just had a fight. Was their response â€˜he/she did it firstâ€™? Well that is exactly how those involved in those riots justified it. And these are the people who were living in harmony for centuries! People who wouldnâ€™t be capable of violence otherwise. Singh brings out the effects of mob violence really well. He is very secular in his writing style; holding equal disgust for all:


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