• Sukhdev Singh Dhanju
• Dr Priya Saroj

The partition of the Indian subcontinent was an event of such a great magnitude that had a very profound and a far reaching effect not only on a common man but also on creative arts and artists too. Works like The Heart Divided by Mumtaz Navaz, Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidva, Clear Light of Day by Anitha Desai, Shadow of Time by Nigar Masroor, Azadi by Chaman Nahal, and A Bend in the Ganges by Manohar Malgokar and Train to Pakistan by Kushwant Singh are the outcome of the same influence. For the fiction provides a vast canvass to the creative genius to deal with the very complex theme like partition and this genre has attracted writers of all Indian languages. Khushwant Singh is known as one of India’s distinguished men of letters with an international reputation, besides, being a significant post-colonial writer in English language. In the six decades since then, he has donned many hats – that of diplomat, eminent journalist/columnist, reputed historian, distinguished publishing editor, and one of India’s most respected (and controversial) public figures. He was honored with the “honest man of the year Award by the Sulabh International Social Service organization for his courage and honesty in his brilliant incisive writing at the award ceremony. And authorized as a “humorous writer and incorrigible believer in human goodness with a devil may-care attitude and a courageous mind” by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Train to Pakistan is a brilliant and realistic story of political hatred, violence, and of mass passions during those turbulent and fateful days that preceded and followed the Partition of the British India. ‘Train to Pakistan’ is praised for its uniqueness even by Salman Rushdie a popular partition writer himself as ‘the only good book on the theme [of Partition]’while Amitav Gosh has acknowledged it as ‘a classic’ . Key Words: Humorous, Turbulent, Uniqueness, Distinguished, Incisive

Humorous, Turbulent, Uniqueness, Distinguished, Incisive

"TRAIN TO PAKISTAN AS A PARTITION NOVEL OF KHUSHWANT SINGH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 11, page no.120-126, November 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907R15.pdf

"TRAIN TO PAKISTAN AS A PARTITION NOVEL OF KHUSHWANT SINGH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 11, page no. pp120-126, November 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907R15.pdf