Author: Sujata S Sabnis
Publisher: Roli Books
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 335
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8174362045
Description
Hasn't nearly every person in the subcontinent tried to imagine a world without Partition - no Pakistan, no Indo-Pak wars, no Kargil, and no Kashmir stalemate. This novel sweeps across the threshold of that question.
Unfurling a scenario, where India at the crossroads of Partition, rejects the division of the country, it moves forward in time to the fifty first year of independence. The mood is sinister with fanatics demanding partition and Pakistan,
The horrors of Partition and the birth of Pakistan - the two biggest traumas inflicted on the psyche of the Indian subcontinent. Hasn't every Indian - and may be every Pakistani and Bangladeshi - wondered at some point of time: Was Partition really necessary? Hasn't nearly every person in the subcontinent tried to imagine a world without Partition - no Pakistan, no Indo-Pak wars, no Kargil, and no Kashmir stalemate.
This novel sweeps across the threshold of that question. Unfurling a scenario, where India at the crossroads of Partition, rejects the division of the country, it moves forward in time to the fifty first year of independence. The mood is sinister with fanatics demanding partition and Pakistan, and the ugly face of terrorism defacing the composite culture of a peace-loving India…Where will it end?
The author fast-forwards the recent past in a touchdown with grim reality…Read on..
EXTRACTS:
Nehru turned away from the window and nodded, ‘. . . this could be the miracle Gandhi was taking about. The act of God which will save us from Partition.’
Kripalani interpolated, ‘And so? What next?’
Patel said crisply, ‘we have to think about our decision again. Carefully. In the light of this information. We have to rethink our decision on Partition.’
‘But last night we forwarded to Mountbatten a formal letter of assent to the Partition Plan!’
‘We can always revoke it. We have not yet authorized it’.
Contents
PART I: THE TWIST
Chapter I --- IV
PART II: CROSSROADS
Chapter V
PART III: DESTINY
Chapter VI --- XV
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