TRAIN TO PAKISTAN: KHUSHWANT SINGH

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN: KHUSHWANT SINGH


Two days before we lost legendary Khushwant Singh. He died at the age of 99. He always remained and will remain one of the most read Indian author.

Train to Pakistan remained one of my favourite books. This book can really bring tears rolling on your cheeks. I read this book way back in the year 2009 (to be precise I read this book on July 11, 2009). When I went to buy this book at a book store, there were two versions available (a) hard bound with pictures and (b) hard bound without pictures. I flipped though the book with pictures. The pictures of India-Pakistan Partition were so disturbing, I could not gather courage to flip through the book till its last pic…. i simply  bought the book without any pictures.

Both the countries suffered a lot during partition of 1947. Religious fanatics from both the sides - both muslims and hindus, butchered their fellow countrymen like vegetables. Both sides went on rampage, rape, mass murders…. pretty sad.

My grandparents came to India during partition from a village called Jafarwal from Pakistan with my dad and his brother. They saw all this looting, murders etc. first hand. But somehow they managed to cross border and slip into India. They lost everything in this partition. 

I am not talking here who is to blame for that massacre, but whatever happened during partition was not warranted. 


Just read tis book and find out what people of India and Pakistan went through in 1947. 

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