Human-nature Relationship in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2019, Vol 24, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper showcases human-nature relationship in Khushwant Singh‟s Train to Pakistan (1956) and enumerates how nature reacts to the partition between two nations. In Train to Pakistan, Sing sketches the ailing state of the villagers of Mano Majra, an imaginary small village near Indo-Pak border by addressing a tragic tale of India-Pakistan partition. The significant episodes of the villagers‟ lives take place in the lap of nature, and nature, with its sight, colour and sound, coexists with their peaceful lives as well as reacts to the disintegration getting manifested in the ambiance of nature. Nonetheless, here love and romance are intertwined with the upheaval of partition, and nature seems to merge with masculine virility and feminine submission. Lastly, in the form of flood, nature appears to protest the holocaust by responding to the anguish of the villagers as if it were an agent of God to punish the hideous incidents. The findings of the paper suggest that nature is against all sorts of forceful partition.
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Nahid Afroz
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