Train To Pakistan, Khushwant Singh
Train To Pakistan, Khushwant Singh
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Train To Pakistan

Author: Khushwant Singh

Narrator: Paul Thottam

Unabridged: 6 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2018

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Mano Majra is a place, Khushwant Singh tells us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the 'ghost train' arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refuges, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endures and transcends the ravages of war.

About The Author

Khushwant Singh was India’s best-known writer and columnist. He was founder-editor of Yojana and editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and Hindustan Times. He was a member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned the decoration in 19984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian Army. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. He passed away in 2014 at the age of ninety-nine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Apoorva on December 27, 2018

Read on blog The story takes place in an isolated village Mano Majra where people from different religions like Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims co-exist in peace. The village stands as a symbol of ignorance and peace until the harmony is threatened by an incident which raises suspicion, chaos, and animosi......more

Goodreads review by Samra on January 04, 2017

It is interesting to read historical novels where history is written as fiction. Here is a novel that tries to record a memorable phase of Indian history through fictional route but the essence is hardly lost in the process..... We come to know a village at brink of Sutlej that is littered with equal......more

Goodreads review by Paul on July 29, 2017

3 June 1947 – Viceroy Mountbatten announces the plan for the Partition of India into two independent states. Independence Day for the new countries will be 14 and 15 August. Journalist : Do you foresee any mass transfer of population? Viceroy Mountbatten : Personally, I don’t see it. Why did Jinnah a......more

Goodreads review by Reading_ on August 07, 2021

The book is based during the summer of 1947 while the whole country was shaken with the woes of partition & the riots between the Sikhs and Muslims residing at Manoj Majra, a simple village where peace used to prevail amongst the said communities. The main protagonist, Juggut Singh, was notorious in......more

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