KUSHWANTH'S CONCLUDING PART

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN
CONCLUDING PART
Train to Pakistan is kushwant Singh’s supreme achievement. It is a fine realistic novel of Indian fiction. It has a well-thought out structure, an absorbing narrative and beautifully portrayed characters. It has many notable features-symbolic frameworks, meaningful atmosphere and a powerful way of expression and style. Stark realism dominates in Train to Pakistan. It presents a moving tragic tale of partition period of Indian History. In its background there is a great human catastrophy of the partition of India and Pakistan and the inhuman events that followed. The novelist succeeds in asserting the value and dignity of a man’s sacrifice for a woman.

Humour, violence, cruel events and torture all lend it a tinge of picaresque novel. The anti-hero Jugga plays a dual role of the creator and the destroyer. Though thrills, excitements and suspense make it a novel of adventure, the horror gives it the appearance of a terror novel. Khushwant Singh’s descriptive virtues are often pointed endeavors to simplify the Indian scene for foreign readers. No human person fails to view the shame, the ugly events recorded in Train to Pakistan. It is profoundly a moving and moral work. The ultimate effect of the book’s conclusion is not to soften the horror of partition or shift the blame to the inevitable tides of history; it is to remind his readers that each of them is responsible for preventing recurrences of that horror in future. In fact, the story told by khushwant Singh has vigour, human and pity and he has been able to present the physical horror also.

Train to Pakistan is a part of the new march toward realism and reaches the unexplored area of values. It explores the new concepts of reality and approaches toward prophetic fiction. The human values in Train to Pakistan are profound, moving and erudite on different facets of 20th century cultural change. It is a brilliant exposition of one of the most moving and tragic events of contemporary Indian history.