![]() Sikhs and Muslims inhabiting that village (Manu Majra, situated on the bank of the river Sutlej) for several generations with no trace of communal antagonism, fall prey to mutual animosity. The story is about a village close to where the Pak-India border was drawn in August 1947. It is pertinent to mention that Train to Pakistan (published in 1956) was one of the first book-length literary expositions of the tragic events of partition which had traumatic ramifications for people across the religious spectrum. The significant question that we took up was about the Punjabi identity, more specifically the cultural dimension of it. The novel was written in the backdrop of the partition in 1947. The discussion that ensued among the young thinking minds in my class after they watched the film, Train to Pakistan based on Khushwant Singh’s novel of the same title, was very lively and perceptive.
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