Train to pakistan read online in urdu full#

вЂњThe wounds of partition have healed,вЂќ he likes to say as often as he can. Singh, who at 91 has borne witness to several rounds of carnage in his country, an occasion once again to warn against forgetfulness. This new incarnation of вЂњTrain to Pakistan,вЂќ has given the book what its author happily calls вЂњa new lease on life.вЂќ It has also given Mr. Now, in a new edition of the novel, in New Delhi has paired his story with 66 unflinching black-and-white photographs of the Partition era, some never before published, by the American photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White. The novel tells the story of an uneventful border village that gets swept up in that violent storm. SinghвЂ™s slim, seminal 1956 novel whose opening paragraphs contain one of its most unsettling lines: вЂњThe fact is, both sides killed.вЂќ An estimated one million people were killed during the partition, and more than 10 million fled their homes: Hindus and Sikhs pouring into India, Muslims heading in the other direction, to Pakistan. That solitary drive would also give shape to вЂњTrain to Pakistan,вЂќ Mr. Singh, also a Sikh, would realize that he would never return home to Lahore, for what he had just heard was a chilling echo of what he had heard on the other side of the soon-to-be border, except that there Sikhs and Hindus were the victims.

Train to pakistan read online in urdu full#

From here, along nearly 200 miles of eerily vacant road, he would drive on to Delhi and, on its outskirts, encounter a jeep full of armed Sikhs, who would boast of having slain a village full of Muslims. 'Just days before the official birth of independent India and Pakistan in August 1947, Khushwant Singh, a lawyer then practicing in the High Court in Lahore, drove alone across what would soon become a bloody frontier and arrived here at his familyвЂ™s summer cottage in the foothills of the Himalayas. Having only just returned from vacation I haven't been able to write my own thoughts on Khushwant Singh's 'Train To Pakistan', so I share with you what the New York Times had to say: This book is one of my favorites because it describes simply, yet effectively, the price paid, in terms of lost lives, loss of property, displacement etc., the price India paid for its independence. It is titled, 'Train to Pakistan' and is written by veteran Indian journalist and author, Khushwant Singh.

Tomorrow India celebrates 60 years of Independence from British colonial rule, Happy Independence Day,India!!! To commemorate the occasion I thought I would share with you a book that I always make time to read around this time of year. Year: First written, 1956,this publication, 2006