Violence during Hindustan and Pakistan creation(1947). Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh is a story about the no, certainly not, because its about characters, which are, u know, are fictitious, but situated in non-fictitious and hard-core reality, struggle to maintain balance consistently between whats good and bad. Why I give this book five stars? Because it's Indian literature? and about us- Indians?. but this time i decided to write anything or something. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages of war.Įvery time i want to write a review, I am just, struck, plain and simple. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. 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. 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. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. 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. “In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people-Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs-were in flight.