Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan highlights the futility of blaming each other for the unfortunate event. Also, the novel is one of the first and most effective works on partition. While writing the novel, the writer has quite objectively treated the event, without blaming a community or religious minority for it. He has tried to stay away from the blame. “Muslims said the Hindus had planned and started the killing. According to the Hindus, the Muslims were to blame”. According to him, “The fact is, both sides killed. Both shot and stubbed and speared and clubbed. Both tortured. Both raped”. Though there are numerous works written on partition but Train to Pakistan stands out as it does not treat the usual themes of indiscriminate killings
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There is no detailed description in the novel of the train journey undertaken by the refugees-in terms of neither the practical difficulties faced nor the dangers involved. More importantly, we are also not shown the violence happening: for there is not even a reported description of the incidents in the novel. We are just informed about the end result of the violence: the trainloads of corpses that arrive at Mano Majra. What is detailed by Khushwant Singh is the after math of the violence.
Train to Pakistan opens in the fictional village Mano Majra and describes how the entire village gets involved in the carnage during the partition. In spite of the repeated peace keeping efforts by many people in the village, the bloodshed could not be stopped. On the surface, the novel describes how suddenly everything changed and made people react in very unusual ways. Commenting upon the major themes of the novel, Rao and Rani …show more content…
Amiens means that who cares to stay with me in happy idleness under the green tree, and who loves to hear and enjoy the sweet melody of wild bird, can come here because here he will find no enemy but only the thing which would trouble them is winter and rough weather.
Soon after, lords who is with banished duke share some talk about the Jaques and he says that Jaques is very sensitive and emotional person, because one of our lord secretly seen that Jaques was sitting under a tree nearby a river and was continously looking at the deer who was crying of pain because he was injured by some hunter. Jaques looks at it and says that your tears are useless because you are adding your tear in river which is already having plenty of water flowing and this is the worst time of one's life because at this situation our friends also leaves us and goes away, and we are left alone with the sorrow and pain and at last left to
There is no detailed description in the novel of the train journey undertaken by the refugees-in terms of neither the practical difficulties faced nor the dangers involved. More importantly, we are also not shown the violence happening: for there is not even a reported description of the incidents in the novel. We are just informed about the end result of the violence: the trainloads of corpses that arrive at Mano Majra. What is detailed by Khushwant Singh is the after math of the violence.
Train to Pakistan opens in the fictional village Mano Majra and describes how the entire village gets involved in the carnage during the partition. In spite of the repeated peace keeping efforts by many people in the village, the bloodshed could not be stopped. On the surface, the novel describes how suddenly everything changed and made people react in very unusual ways. Commenting upon the major themes of the novel, Rao and Rani …show more content…
Amiens means that who cares to stay with me in happy idleness under the green tree, and who loves to hear and enjoy the sweet melody of wild bird, can come here because here he will find no enemy but only the thing which would trouble them is winter and rough weather.
Soon after, lords who is with banished duke share some talk about the Jaques and he says that Jaques is very sensitive and emotional person, because one of our lord secretly seen that Jaques was sitting under a tree nearby a river and was continously looking at the deer who was crying of pain because he was injured by some hunter. Jaques looks at it and says that your tears are useless because you are adding your tear in river which is already having plenty of water flowing and this is the worst time of one's life because at this situation our friends also leaves us and goes away, and we are left alone with the sorrow and pain and at last left to