Singh is known as one of the best known Indian writers. Khushwant Singh was born in 1915 in what is now Pakistan. The novel was published and copyrighted in 1956 by Grove Press, Inc. Completion of the Link Connecting the Triangulations of India and Russia 1913. Train to Pakistan is a novel by Khushwant Singh. Unfortunately, the current political climate in India and Pakistan seems largely uninterested in such a view right now. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. It has an important message to us all about the reality of cross-cultural harmony being destroyed by desperate and ignorant ideologues. Hopefully, this film will gather a wider audience later in its life than it had upon release when it was all but ignored, in India and abroad. Rooks takes Singh's social realist narrative and faithfully transcribes it to the screen, with the allegory of India's tragic fate still bitterly intact. Singh's novel of the same title came out in 1956, and was probably the first English language novel to deal with this traumatic historical event, which saw nearly 10 million people rendered homeless, and perhaps 1 million murdered, raped, and kidnapped. It tells the story of a small town on the border of India/Pakistan just as partition is ripping the cultures apart. I finally got around to seeing this film the other day, and it was worth the wait.
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