: This Partition novel reminds all of India that communal violence can never be controlled #IndiaNEWS As I start writing these lines today, I have this gnawing pain in my gut – a feeling of futility

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This Partition novel reminds all of India that communal violence can never be controlled #IndiaNEWS
As I start writing these lines today, I have this gnawing pain in my gut – a feeling of futility about everything that I have read or written since 1929. Everything’s gone down the drain. My dreams of seeing this country stand tall and united have crumbled into dust. My eyes – yes, the same ones that had witnessed Hindus and Muslims and Sikhs sip from the same glass of water – are mute spectators to the carnage unfolding before us. They have seen brothers drink each other’s blood. How I wish the good lord had closed these eyes forever, spared them the trauma of having to see what they have seen! One short year. That’s all it took to bring our nation to this calamity. Who could have imagined it? And surely, it is nothing but sheer mulishness on my part that I am using this book to bring Muslims and non-Muslims on the same page at a time when people consider it foolhardy to even mention both in the same sentence. I won’t be surprised if some of my readers find this book swimming against the prevailing currents, but there is nothing that I can do about it. It feels...Read more

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