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 Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh
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The Train to Pakistan is a fictitious account of the impact of Partition in a small country town called Mano Majra which sits beside the railway line. All the events described are based in fact but delivered as fiction. It's fair to say that you couldn't make it up if you tried - nobody would believe this if it wasn't documented, photographed and proven to be true.
My copy of The Train to Pakistan is the 50th Anniversary Special Edition in which Kushuvant Singh's classic story is illustrated with the ph...more |
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Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh: Sometimes Good People do Evil Deeds (1854 words)
by - written on 27/01/08 (Very useful, 732 readings)
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Historical Background ***************** During our last holiday in India we discovered that you can't go to Northern India - and particularly the Punjab - without being repeatedly reminded about the Indian Independence Movement, the 1947 'Partition' and the horrific consequences of Britain's some-might-say 'over hasty' departure from India. The hotel owner in Delhi told us how his family lost everything when they had to leave Pakistan and fought for decades to rebuild their fortune. We stayed with a friend's Sikh relatives in a small village in the Punjab which had originally been a Muslim village and heard that his grandfather was famed ... Read the complete review
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