Short Story: The Story Of Eesher Singh's Thanda Ghost

“Thanda Ghost” is a narrative that focuses upon the victims of the times of partition. The story centers upon a homicidal Sikh, Eesher Singh, who returns to his home with a dagger in one hand and wearing a headgear signifying his actions as homicidal and ruthless.The narrative presents itself in a mysterious and strange room where his wife,Kalwant Kaur rests herself.Kalwant Kaur is projected as a strong,beautiful,well built woman.On being asked by Kalwant Kaur about his whereabouts for the past 8 days, he tries to ignore the question and starts to make love with her but on being rendered sexually impotent his wife doubts him. And after much hue and cry the wife stabs him on learning the fact that he cheated on him. And as his last words, he describes his story where he loots and kills six people of a family but not a young girl.He kidnaps the young girl with the intention of violating her makes.But later,he realizes that she was dead, a heap of cold flesh.

To make sense of the blood thirst and communal tensions that surrounded his own home province of Punjab at the dawn of a long awaited freedom, Manto looked into the inner recesses of human nature. As we read through his works, we find that it was not religious zeal or

Manto was so far-sighted. He portrayed the darkness of human psyche as humanist values declined during Partition years. Though this story depicted the sectarian killings during Partition, it is still contemporary. And while writing the self-critical thing (the boys belonged to his side of the border) enforces the true nature of his works of those times. He mirrored the hypocrisy that surrounds the evil in society. His sharp pen did not spare anyone, the high or the low, the left or the right, the ruler or the ruled, the capitalists or the communist, the Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or the