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Train To Hindi Short Story

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Introduction Partition:- the division of Hindustan into two separate states of India and Pakistan in 1947. Partition just a single word but the effect of this word had greatly on the lives of millions of people. It destroyed the life of many individuals. Literature is the best way to describe what was happened in the society. It is the best way because literature has the only ability to touch the pulse of emotion in an appropriate manner. India is the only country where many people of different regions, caste, Culture live together happily but there was a time when this bond was broken by the British and left the Hindustan divided in two i.e India and Pakistan. The partition happened in 1947, this the year when we get freedom from the rule …show more content…

He is one of the wonderful writers of history and fiction. In this novel Singh successfully portray the stark reality of our past. The main theme of this novel is partition instead of this fact it is different from other partition novel in respect of unity of time, place and action. The novel style is realistic. This novel portrayed the conditions of innocent people who became the victim of Partition. In the fiction village Mano Majro near the border of India and Pakistan, the Sikh and Muslims lived together happily. All events that occurred cover a period not more than a month. Many events took place, the incident of murdered of local moneylender and the blame upon Juggat singh who is the village gangster and also is in love with a Muslim girl. There are many train arrives carrying with the bodies of dead Sikhs with that the wind of violence came and the whole village is transformed into a battlefield and in that neither the magistrate nor the police had ability to control that rise of violence. But the climax of the novel was so exciting when Jugga saves the train which is full of Muslims migrants who were going to Pakistan from the attack at the cost of his

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