Psychological Trauma in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan

Abstract

 There have been attempts to describe the experience of Partition in different forms. Different attempts have been used such as historical writings, narratives, interview and memoirs constitute one group while imaginative attempts, such as literature, motion pictures, and paintings from other group .Many Indian novelists have tried to represent the trauma of partition in fictional writing. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the readers with the Khushwant Singh‘s Train to Pakistan (1956) where partition is the central theme.