--- title: Train To Pakistan description: Arthi Audiseshan reviews Khushwant Singh's early fictions, a story based in Punjab, during India-Pakistan partition. image: https://blog.rahuldesai.com/hubfs/Kushwant_Singh4_07-03-2008_18_56_25.jpg --- # Train To Pakistan Arthi Audiseshan | 08 Aug, 2010 | About 2 mins read ![Arthi Audiseshan](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Arthi%20Audiseshan-1.png?height=64&name=Arthi%20Audiseshan-1.png) **Author**: Khushwant Singh/ **Publisher**: Grove Press/ **ISBN**: 9780802132215 *[Arthi](http://arthiaudi.blogspot.com) is back to pen her thoughts down and so is **Train to Pakistan** - one of my long-loved [books](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/books/). Here's a guest post, the book review of Train to Pakistan.*  Although I have read a lot of books since I was 10, this is my first book review. Thanks to Rahul who inspired (read as forced) me into this one. ;) Train to Pakistan is a book based on the partition of India and Pakistan right after India's independence. It takes us to the summer of 1947 to Mano Majra, a tiny village in Punjab. ![Train to Pakistan](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/hs-fs/file-32105239-jpg/images/train_to_pakistan-resized-600.jpg?width=320&name=train_to_pakistan-resized-600.jpg) The partition means almost nothing to the local villagers and all is well between the Sikh farmers and Muslim tenants of the village until the local money lender Ram Lal is murdered. Jugga and the England-returned social activist become the prey of the Punjab Police. The heavy drama shifts drastically when an eastbound train makes an unplanned stop at Mano Majra, coaches full of corpses. The flabbergasted villagers have not yet accepted the truth when reality slaps them once again when Sutlej floods from the neighboring village. Action paces on as the magistrate, Jugga, Iqbal (the social activist), and village heads try to tackle the revolting violence. Also, the attitude of local police and niggling government officials is very nicely portrayed. The end, however, leaves a lot of open threads. Once I was about 4 - 5 pages away from the end, I was keen to know how will he end the series of misfortunes in the village. Frankly, I was a bit disappointed since I was expecting something out of Mr. Iqbal as well. But to sum it up, Mr. Singh's eye for detail makes it a total page-turner. Train to Pakistan gets a "Must Read" tag. *Read the original article at [Book Review - Train to Pakistan](http://arthiaudi.blogspot.com/2010/08/book-review-train-to-pakistan.html)* *Also read, review by Dr. Bharat M Desai: [Train To Pakistan - A Khushwant Singh Fiction](https://www.rahuldesai.com/books/tabid/85311/bid/97921/Train-To-Pakistan-A-Khushwant-Singh-Fiction.aspx)* [Fiction](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/fiction), [India](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/india), [Book](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/book), [Romance](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/romance), [Pakistan](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/pakistan), [Review](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/review) *This article is about [Fiction](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/fiction), [India](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/india), [Book](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/book), [Romance](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/romance), [Pakistan](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/pakistan), [Review](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/topic/review) and written by **Arthi Audiseshan**. A photographer and a yoga lover, Arthi is also a lifelong fan of books, dancing, music and the beautiful city of Pune. Read [all their articles](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/author/arthi-audiseshan).* * [Read](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/tabid/85311/bid/12363/train-to-pakistan.aspx#comments-listing) other readers' 1 comment or write your own.* ## Related Articles #### [Tragic Story Of Partition The only reason for the India-Pakistan partition was Congress - a few Congress leaders who were...](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/tabid/85311/bid/87794/the-tragic-story-of-partition.aspx) #### [Women's Role In Building Peace Between India And Pakistan Given the truth of the generalization that men start conflicts and women are left to pick up the...](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/tabid/3310/bid/3412/women-s-role-in-building-peace-between-india-pakistan.aspx) #### [2 States (The Story Of My Marriage) **Author**: Chetan Bhagat/ **Publisher**: Rupa & Co/ **ISBN**: 9788129115300 Just finished reading ***Two States ***](https://blog.rahuldesai.com/tabid/85311/bid/13012/2-states-the-story-of-my-marriage.aspx)