Communal frenzy in Khushwant Singh’s novel train to Pakistan

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Discussion about partition which took place post-independence in 1947.

The novel talks about the repercussion of the partition on different communities.

Nation went into total chaos leading to massacre and bloodshed.

How the lives of common and innocent people are affected due to partition.

The main objective of the paper is to discuss about the communal frenzy and to show the brutal side of humanity at the time of partition.

How Khushwant Singh has depicted the picture of India using a fictional town and the effects of partition on communities living in that town.

In this manuscript, Singh indirectly hints that love and passion has the ability and power to win adverse situation.

Discussion about how India was forced to get divided into two separate nations and how arch nemesis was not something people were born but was enforced by colonizers and by Indians too.

It creates a paradigm for future studies and exchange of values.