Train to pakistan

"Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians - or the Pakistanis" The bloody violence sweeping India after the partition has not yet touched Mano Majro, a small village of Muslims and Sikhs, on the India-Pakistan border. But in the summer of 1947, the murder of a Hindu moneylender and the arrival of a train full of dead Sikhs set of a tragic chain of events. This novel gives a vivid account of the…

Train to Pakistan book by Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh’s writing was brilliant, incisive, and most of all – unsparing. He said things like it is, confronted bereavement head on, and in Train to Pakistan, made sure every Indian knew the meaning of [...]

Gender Bias in Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan