Partition- when suddenly two countries, two state, two cities or for that matter any piece of land gets separated from one another it leaves both the pieces deprived of its originality. It also destroys both the piece of land and somewhere the essence of a person relating to one or the other piece gets destroyed. Partition can be based on a religion, caste, class etc. but after it is done no institution is left and nothing is there in its original form. Partition as always is a term used which is simply denoting the divide of the two states or two pieces of land but behind these simple words there is different story revolving around and these stories contribute to our knowledge of the consequences of such a decision or the causes behind such
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The home which I am living in is my real homes or these years was just a lie in front of them. this decision was a mass movement of humanity and there were more than 500,000 people who have to leave their original land and move to their new given lands. More than 200,000 people were killed and butchered because of the Hindu Muslim riots going on due to partition. It is said to be the partition of British Colonized India into two parts Pakistan and the dominion of India. British India was divided by none other than the decision of a British barrister called Sir Cyril Radcliffe and suddenly there was an arbitrary and an imaginative boundary drawn between these two patches of land. British was successful in slicing these lands on the issue of religion and the brothers who were believed to be a Hindu or a Muslim or a Sikh was not turned towards each other as a fighter to save his land. There was a sudden social and political unrest. People were facing a kind of paranoia and the physical damage too. These stories of people can only be found when we read about the partition literature and this area of literature has briefly discussed about the causes and consequences or the conclusions of such a step. Many writers or wits have discussed in length about …show more content…
He was born in the Kashmiri Muslim family of barristers. By nationality he was a Pakistani writer and was one of the most influential person and a greatest writer in South Asian history. He was most read writer and the most criticized person. His pen produced twenty-one short stories, one novel, and five series of radio plays, three collections of essay and two collections of personal sketches. Manto was always said that he never used to wrote about the things which he has not experienced of lived and so somewhere his characters were real life characters rather than fictional characters. He used to write about the topics on sexual desires, prostitution, rape etc. but somewhere the stories he wrote about the partition gets reader attracted and pulled towards him. He was mostly criticized for the obscenity in his stories but every time he had this thing to say his critics that if you cannot bear stories than the society is unbearable for you. He used to talk about the truth of the society which was always to be kept behind the curtains an he just used to get the curtains out so that people can see the reality. His characters were from ordinary and low life setting but this is the beauty of Manto that he portrayed these characters strong enough. The historian Ayesha Jalal, (who is Manto’s grand-niece) wrote in her book about him, The Pity of
The home which I am living in is my real homes or these years was just a lie in front of them. this decision was a mass movement of humanity and there were more than 500,000 people who have to leave their original land and move to their new given lands. More than 200,000 people were killed and butchered because of the Hindu Muslim riots going on due to partition. It is said to be the partition of British Colonized India into two parts Pakistan and the dominion of India. British India was divided by none other than the decision of a British barrister called Sir Cyril Radcliffe and suddenly there was an arbitrary and an imaginative boundary drawn between these two patches of land. British was successful in slicing these lands on the issue of religion and the brothers who were believed to be a Hindu or a Muslim or a Sikh was not turned towards each other as a fighter to save his land. There was a sudden social and political unrest. People were facing a kind of paranoia and the physical damage too. These stories of people can only be found when we read about the partition literature and this area of literature has briefly discussed about the causes and consequences or the conclusions of such a step. Many writers or wits have discussed in length about …show more content…
He was born in the Kashmiri Muslim family of barristers. By nationality he was a Pakistani writer and was one of the most influential person and a greatest writer in South Asian history. He was most read writer and the most criticized person. His pen produced twenty-one short stories, one novel, and five series of radio plays, three collections of essay and two collections of personal sketches. Manto was always said that he never used to wrote about the things which he has not experienced of lived and so somewhere his characters were real life characters rather than fictional characters. He used to write about the topics on sexual desires, prostitution, rape etc. but somewhere the stories he wrote about the partition gets reader attracted and pulled towards him. He was mostly criticized for the obscenity in his stories but every time he had this thing to say his critics that if you cannot bear stories than the society is unbearable for you. He used to talk about the truth of the society which was always to be kept behind the curtains an he just used to get the curtains out so that people can see the reality. His characters were from ordinary and low life setting but this is the beauty of Manto that he portrayed these characters strong enough. The historian Ayesha Jalal, (who is Manto’s grand-niece) wrote in her book about him, The Pity of