The riots had broken out in Calcutta which took a toll of several thousand lives. The political condition was unstable and explosive. ![]() ![]() The novelist tells us in the very first sentence that it was the summer of 1947 which was hotter than usual and drier and dustier because it had not rained. Train To Pakistan is about the holocaust that took place in 1947 when India was divided into two countries India and Pakistan. The story of a novel may be fictitious, yet it is not far from the truth, since it depicts a true picture of social, economic and political conditions prevailing at the time. ![]() Novel writing is an art, requiring knowledge of life-style of the people of the age with which the story is related, imagination to create episodes and to link them with one another, to arrange them in a series having a beginning, a middle and an end.
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