Author: Khuswant Singh
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786257742
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the new state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight, By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. One of these villages was Mano Majra.” It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the “ghost train” arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endures and transcends the ravages of war.
Train to Pakistan
Author: Khushwant Singn
Publisher: Everbind
ISBN: 9780784809518
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A novel for secondary school English classes with great writing and important themes.
Publisher: Everbind
ISBN: 9780784809518
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A novel for secondary school English classes with great writing and important themes.
NOT A NICE MAN TO KNOW
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351182789
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The essential Khushwant Singh collection. In an essay in this anthology, Khushwant Singh claims that he is not a nice man to know. Whatever the truth of that assertion, there is little question about his skill as a witty, eloquent and entertaining writer. This book collects the best of over three decades of the author’s prose—including his finest journalistic pieces, short stories, translations, jokes, plays as well as excerpts from his non-fiction books and novels. Taken together, the pieces in this selection (some of which have never been published before) show just why Khushwant Singh is the country’s most widely read columnist and one of its most celebrated authors.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351182789
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The essential Khushwant Singh collection. In an essay in this anthology, Khushwant Singh claims that he is not a nice man to know. Whatever the truth of that assertion, there is little question about his skill as a witty, eloquent and entertaining writer. This book collects the best of over three decades of the author’s prose—including his finest journalistic pieces, short stories, translations, jokes, plays as well as excerpts from his non-fiction books and novels. Taken together, the pieces in this selection (some of which have never been published before) show just why Khushwant Singh is the country’s most widely read columnist and one of its most celebrated authors.
The End of India
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184750560
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
‘I thought the nation was coming to an end’ When Khushwant Singh witnessed the violence of Partition nearly seventy years ago, he believed that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. But after the carnage in Gujarat in 2002, he had reason to feel that the worst, perhaps, was still to come. Analysing the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, the burning of Graham Staines and his children, the targeted killings by terrorists in Punjab and Kashmir, Khushwant Singh forces us to confront the absolute corruption of religion that has made us among the most brutal people on earth. He also points out that fundamentalism has less to do with religion than with politics. And communal politics, he reminds us, is only the most visible of the demons we have nurtured and let loose upon ourselves. A brave and passionate book, The End of India is a wake-up call for every citizen concerned about his or her own future, if not the nation’s.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184750560
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
‘I thought the nation was coming to an end’ When Khushwant Singh witnessed the violence of Partition nearly seventy years ago, he believed that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. But after the carnage in Gujarat in 2002, he had reason to feel that the worst, perhaps, was still to come. Analysing the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, the burning of Graham Staines and his children, the targeted killings by terrorists in Punjab and Kashmir, Khushwant Singh forces us to confront the absolute corruption of religion that has made us among the most brutal people on earth. He also points out that fundamentalism has less to do with religion than with politics. And communal politics, he reminds us, is only the most visible of the demons we have nurtured and let loose upon ourselves. A brave and passionate book, The End of India is a wake-up call for every citizen concerned about his or her own future, if not the nation’s.
Train To Pakistan
Author: Khuswant Singh
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786257742
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the new state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight, By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. One of these villages was Mano Majra.” It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the “ghost train” arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endures and transcends the ravages of war.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786257742
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the new state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight, By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. One of these villages was Mano Majra.” It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the “ghost train” arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endures and transcends the ravages of war.
Train to Pakistan
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788175300330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This Novel Of Partition Was First Published In 1956 And Is Now Widely Accepted As Being One Of The Classics Of Modern Indian Fiction.
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788175300330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This Novel Of Partition Was First Published In 1956 And Is Now Widely Accepted As Being One Of The Classics Of Modern Indian Fiction.
Train to Pakistan
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125028215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Train to Pakistan was first published on 1956 and is now widely accepted as being one of the classics of modern Indian fiction. The novel has been translated into several European and Indian languages and its readership has grown over the years.
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125028215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Train to Pakistan was first published on 1956 and is now widely accepted as being one of the classics of modern Indian fiction. The novel has been translated into several European and Indian languages and its readership has grown over the years.
Indian Writing in English
Author: Ramesh Mohan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Three Contemporary Novelists
Author: Rajinder Kumar Dhawan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Indo-Anglian Fiction
Author: N. Radhakrishnan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indic fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indic fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Style in Indian English Fiction
Author: Z. N. Patil
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indic fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Book Analyzes Some Indian Novelists In Terms Of The Operation Of The Principles Of Texxtual And Interpersonal Pragmatics. The Illustrative Material Is Drawn From The Novels Of Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Khushwant Singh, Ahmed Ali. Humayun Kabir, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Rama Mehta, Chman Nahal, Manohar Malgonkar, Sasthi Brata, Jai Nimbkar, Balraj Khanna, Salman Rushdie And Others.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indic fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Book Analyzes Some Indian Novelists In Terms Of The Operation Of The Principles Of Texxtual And Interpersonal Pragmatics. The Illustrative Material Is Drawn From The Novels Of Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Khushwant Singh, Ahmed Ali. Humayun Kabir, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Rama Mehta, Chman Nahal, Manohar Malgonkar, Sasthi Brata, Jai Nimbkar, Balraj Khanna, Salman Rushdie And Others.