• RITU SHARMA

ABSTRACT Train to Pakistan is a symbol of motion or movement. It signifies groups or multitudes of people who are heading for various destinations. It also shows horrifying process of change, a ghastly experience of human involved in a historical change. This change is impersonal and dehumanized. The train suggests the fate of individuals, the fortune of the two newly born nations. The partition is a political decision which had given the people the miseries, sufferings and privation. The train is an indicator of the machine age, an age dominated by science and technology. This has devalued humanistic values. The human race far from nature and God, finds itself rootless, lifeless and completely alienated. This alienation is symbolic in Train to Pakistan. The train goes from Mano Majra, a village on the Indian side in the Punjab, to Lahore, the capital of the undivided Punjab before partition.

Key Words: contemporary, threshold unprecedented, bloodshed, turbulent, drastically, nostalgia, communalism, partition, riots.

"Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan: Depiction of Unprecedented Destruction ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.607-615, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906669.pdf

"Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan: Depiction of Unprecedented Destruction ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp607-615, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906669.pdf