Name: Train to Pakistan [Story of love, fear and sacrifice]
Item: OL318479W
Rating: 100
Author: @les90

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I hardly seems people write books review from the scrobble.life website as they mostly love to write about movie and series' review's, i was also planned to write on a movie which i watched last weekend but then my mind got changed and i think let's try to share a book review with all of you. Image source

Train to Pakistan!!!

This is a historical novel written by khushaant Singh written in 1956 and the story was about the partition of Pakistan and got separation but I'll tell you how writer write it on a deep view and we read the story from a Sikh point of view. Actually today we Pakistani's celebrate our independence day and tomorrow indians will celebrate their independence day and on every independence day i remind that book which i once read in 2018 but still lives me like a good memory.

Fictional characters!!!

Juggat Singh jugga
Noora a Muslim girl
Iqbal (political man who often visit mano majra)
Hukam chand (He represent the government)

I can memorize only these four major characters after eight years of reading a book.

Starting plot!!!

So, as it's a fictional story and all the characters in the novel are fictional but they're like a truth, life was a so peaceful when Muslims and Sikhs live together in a small Village of India name as Mano Majra, even the village name is also fictional and their life depend on the train from export and import thing's. Sikh and Muslin both have different point of view on religion but it doesn't effect on living them together as they're friends with each other and live happily.

And when the partition happened, thing's start to change as the situation become more violent as people feel fear to live here peacefully and things change also.

One night, Juggat Singh jugga and Nooran were making love on the river side they noticed an attack from the outside and Nooran was hide somewhere and she went to home while police finds Juggat Singh jugga as a suspect because they think that he killed the money launder of the village so he arrested him as a criminal.

Important point!!!

After the murder of famous money launder, a train came to mano Majra which doesn't have things of use but they find corpses of Muslims in the train. And after that a train come in which Sikhs corpse's, they just tried to make them separately but their way was brutal.

So they judge the situation and make a decision that Sikhs will remain here in Mano Majra while Muslim have to go back from here and leave the village as they shifted to Pakistan.

I love it how Khushaant Singh shows us that even with different religions they live peacefully and friendly together and now it's hard to leave the village and separate from their friends. Jugga also know that Nooran will go to Pakistan with her Family, i actually like the point how writer here show that a Muslim girl and a sikh fall in love with each other that for love and friendship they need only to be human not from the same religion.

But as they have to shifted towards Pakistan, but some people make a plan that when train will start travelling from here they'll make a fire and as jugga was in their arrest so he knows the plan, and now he knows that Nooran will also In the train and he wants to keep her safe although wherever she'll live but he wants to keep her alive.

Ending point!!!

For me the ending was emotional because jugga somehow make his was to reach to the train and cut the rope so to protect from it and he does while saving the train because some attackers shoot him and he lost his own life but he saved his love one's and whole Muslim community.

My opinion!!!

For me it was best ever read because although Muslims and sikhs living peacefully but because of those political parties they've to separate from each other and finished their friendships and relationships just because of these political parties who shows brutal sign by burning train's. And the jugga who was found on the river , they think that he's the criminal but actually at the end he saved a lot of lives but not his own and so he's the real hero.

Final thought's!!!

For me it's not just an ordinary novel about partition but for me it's about love, fear and sacrifice of ordinary people like what they really faced because where they live they've friends in the dictionary of Humans not in the way that they judge each other by their religion. I read hundreds books in my little life but this one always Hits different as i love it.

Anyway at the end Happy Independence day to all Pakistani users of Hive and especially I'm mentioning few which i remember @dlmmqb @storicious @aslamrer @amberkashif @nabbas0786 @idksamad7896.

The one main thing, there was a movie too on this book base you can watch the movie but I always prefer to read a book especially when it comes to history.

Thank you for your time and support 🙏

Rating: 100/100

Originally posted through scrobble.life/books.

The story may sounds fictional, but as you have mentioned, it is the reality every human faced at that time. The best part about this book is that it is not mere facts and figures or partition, rather it is about how ordinary people who once lived together peacefully suddenly became victims of situations they never created.

(Bit of yapping, it was bound to happen. We stayed together for a long time, there is no doubt in it. But it was more like a power struggle since the Mughal Era. The fact is simple. Hindus were in majority; Muslims were in minority. A minority ruling over the majority is something not acceptable by any. The Muslims continued their powerful hold; then came the great Akbar sahib. He gave th concept of Din-e-Elahi. Married into Hindus and Sikhs. Ended pilgrim taxation system. However, after he was gone This work was undone, and this ignited good hatred on both sides. Skipping forward a lot, the divide and rule policy, the differences between the upper class - Congress and Muslim League, the end of Khilafat etc, everything led to it. And not to hate on Allama Iqbal sahib, he is my favorite when it comes to writing the connection between Allah and a person/community. But through his poetry, at one place he is criticising the nationhood; on the other, he gave the concept of separate nationhood.)

Jugga and Nooran’s relationship is really a beautiful concept. Their love makes the religious divide feel even more tragic because, at the end of the day, they were simply two human beings who and loved cared for each other. Oh the cruelty of this world to not let two lovers stay together.

(Reminds me of Quaid-e-Azam. The legend who married a Parsi woman - later on a Muslim; but did not let her daughter marry a Parsi man. Of course, he had his own reasoning.)

And indeed, reading a book is way better than a movie. Like even after 8-years you still remember it, still carrying its impact. Warna ajkl to Pakistan Studies hi bs fictional k naam p bacha parhta h.

Happy Independence Day to you too! Mulk to haseen h hi; bs hamain thori c tabdeeli k zaroorat h. Tb tk Bajay sunta rahiya.

Pakistan Zindabad!

PEACE 🕊️