Significance of Trains in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
Khushwant Singh(1915-2014) was a versatile author, columnist and a lawyer who wrote numerous works of great artistic value.The present work of study Train to Pakistan is one of his masterpieces which recounts massacre of 1947. Singh has used fictional village and characters to depict realities of the traumatic times. His gripping manner of recapturing a historical moment is unmatchable. Singh has chosen Mano Majra as the locale of this novel and very skillfully woven all the incidents to recreate a blood soaked aeon. He has significantly used trains to highlight major as well as minor events of the novel which makes it different from other partition based works. Present paper is deep analysis of a trainconscious region Mano Majra, trains which were cause of hustle and bustle during pre-partition period, later turn into ghostly carriages displaying death, displacement, and despair.Khushwant Singh has magnificently woven scenes and incidents in connection with trains.
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Jasmeet Kaur
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