Screening of the film Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh

Screening of the film Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh

The film Train to Pakistan is based upon a famous novel Train to Pakistan(Mano Majra)by Khushwant Singh (partition of India and Pakistan) was screened on 24/08/2019 for B.A.II optional students, Ten students enjoyed films. 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. One of these villages was Mano Majra.” 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. 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. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages of war. Train to Pakistan is not a mere effusion of Khushwant Singh’s musings.s

Dr Rathod R.B, explained the students the details of the novel and film.s