critical analysis of train to pakistan by khushwant singh

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.Ī 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.Ī comrade, atheist, Muslim by religion preached about morals highly, about government's inability, about rich and poor and he also morally good and but failed to do anything to stop to turn a train into corpse carrier.Ī river, its water increasing, crossing its borders and ready to eat villages, standing beside her(its metaphor, i think, indicating growing evil)

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. 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.Ī 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. Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh is a story about the violence during Hindustan and Pakistan creation(1947). 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. because its an Indian literature? and about us- Indians?. but this time i decided to write anything or something. Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh is a story about the violence dur every time i want to write a review, i just, struck, plain and simple.

It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages of war.Įvery time i want to write a review, i just, struck, plain and simple. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. 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 refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years.

The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote re “In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people-Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs-were in flight. “In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people-Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs-were in flight.

Critical analysis of train to pakistan by khushwant singh