Train to pakistan book

"Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians - or the Pakistanis" The bloody violence sweeping India after the partition has not yet touched Mano Majro, a small village of Muslims and Sikhs, on the India-Pakistan border. But in the summer of 1947, the murder of a Hindu moneylender and the arrival of a train full of dead Sikhs set of a tragic chain of events. This novel gives a vivid account of the…

Train to Pakistan book by Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh’s writing was brilliant, incisive, and most of all – unsparing. He said things like it is, confronted bereavement head on, and in Train to Pakistan, made sure every Indian knew the meaning of [...]

Every story about the India Pakistan partition leaves you with a sense of loss and sadness. What was the point? A beautiful book, all in all,Train to Pakistan

To a South Indian, Indo-Pak partition was never a serious topic of discussion. I knew it as a terrible incident in the modern history of independent India blemished with stains of blood and marks of violence. Nothing more,nothing less. Kushwant Singh's "A train to Pakistan" was the catalyst. I was interested in knowing the stories from that miserable period and I decided to go with Ms. Malhotra's debut book.The friend from the other corner of the world sent it as a gift through giggles…

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