Train To Pakistan || Khushwant Singh || Book Review

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN



" The fact is, both sides killed,Both shot and stabbed and spreared and clubbed. Both tortured. both raped"
1947!! The year of pride and happiness. It's India's independence. But the summer of year of glory also became the dark history of India.

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Train To Pakistan

Mother India is divided by religion. British policy of divide and rule bought " #ghost_trains" To both sides of border. Trains full of dead bodies of Hindus & Sikhs are gifted to India and Muslims to Pakistan.
But partition doesn't mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra, a village on the border of India and Pakistan. But the murder of Lala Ram, a local moneylender instigate the fire of communal dispute in Mano Majra and the arriving of the "#ghost_train" carrying the bodies of dead Sikhs, the village transformed to a battle field, and neither the magistrate nor the police are able to stem rising tide of violence. The mob wanted another #ghost_train " of Muslims, a gift of corpses to Pakistan.
Admist conflicting loyalties, it is left to Juggut Sight, the son of a local dacoit to redeem himself and reclaim peace for his village and he waits for the arrival of the train
When the train arrives the bullets from the mob made the man fall and.................
And the train roles over him and continues,unscathed,on the way to Pakistan......