Literary places in Mano Majra

Train to Pakistan

Khushwant Singh

In the summer of 1947, the small Punjab border village of Mano Majra, where Sikhs and Muslims have always lived as neighbours, is torn apart by Partition when a ghost train of massacred Sikhs arrives from the new Pakistan. Singh's spare, unsparing novel is rooted in the real geography of the frontier: the mixed village by its railway station, the bridge over the Sutlej, the river swollen with the monsoon and the dead, and the trains that carry a people to safety or to slaughter.

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