The Study of Animal and Human Mind from Khuswant Singh
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International Journal of Trend in Research and Development, Volume 3(5), ISSN: 2394-9333 www.ijtrd.com The Study of Animal And Human Mind from Khuswant Singh 1Dr.Narendra Kumar Hetcherla, 2Dr.Kiran kumar, 3Dr.N.Sivachandran, 1,2,3Assistant Professor, PG & Research Department of English, Joseph Arts And Science College, Thirunavalur, Villupuram, TamilNadu. India Abstract: This paper contextualize the religious belief about No God!" He also once said, "I don't believe in rebirth or in khushwant singh third and fourth chapter denotes the recial reincarnation, in the day of judgement or in heaven or hell. I discrimination of train to Pakistan and the summary train to accept the finality of death." His last book The Good, The Bad Pakistan. Conclusion with “man is a social animal” by the and The Ridiculous was published in October 2013, following author khuswant singh exposes about sufferings, struggles and which he retired from writing. The book was his continued emotions of people and how they are hurt by some humans. critique of religion and especially its practice in India, including the critique of the clergy and priests. It earned a lot Keywords: Social, Inhuman, Morality, Religious Belief, Hurt, of acclaim in India, where such debates are rare. Sikhs, Muslims IV. THE RECIAL DISCRIMINATION OF TRAIN TO I. INTRODUCTION PAKISTAN Indian English literature refers to the body of work Train to Pakistan, originally published in 1956, is by writers in India who write in the English language and not a very good book, but quite enjoyable much of the time. whose native or co-native language could be one of the Khushwant Singh, less than ten years after Partition, in 1947, numerous Language of India. Its early history began with the wrote a novel of less than 200 pages and still managed to works of R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao who create what’s probably best described as an uneven mess. contributed to Indian fiction in the 1930s. It is also associated Ideas, allusions, characters and bits and pieces of story float all with the works of members of the Indian diaspora, such as V. over the book. There’s no denying that Singh, who has since S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Agha Shahid Ali, become a famous public figure and intellectual in India, Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie, who are of Indian prefers to lecture rather than write a fully coherent novel. This descent. is not to say, however, that Train to Pakistan is a bad book. There is much in it that is successful, much that is interesting II. KHUSHWANT SINGH and even engrossing, especially in the first half of the book, Khushwant Singh (born Khushal Singh, 2 February which is far more compellingly told than anything in the 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indiannovelist, lawyer, second half. In the latter half we flounder unhappily through journalist and politician. Born and raised in Hadali, Punjab Singh’s feeble attempts to hold all strands of his story together (now in Pakistan), he studied law at St. Stephen's College, to deliver what is clearly meant to be a moving and inspiring Delhi, and King's College London. After working as a lawyer ending to a book that isn’t shy about its intent to present the in Lahore Court for eight years, he joined the Indian Foreign reader not just (or even primarily) with a convincing story, but Service upon the Independence of India from British Empire in with a convincing reading of history. 1947. He was appointed journalist in the All India Radio in The main character is Mano Majra, the border town 1951, and then moved to the Department of Mass where in the story is based. I have not officially studied Communications of UNESCO at Paris in 1956. These last two literature so I don’t honestly know weather it is correct to call careers encouraged him to pursue a literary career. As a writer, a town a character of the story but I will do so. This town he was best known for his trenchant secularism, humour, receives the train filled of corpses not once but twice and that sarcasm and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of leads to subsequent departure of all Muslims from this town. social and behavioural characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as the editor of “You are in the same handcuffs and fetters which the several literary and news magazines, as well as two English put on you. We have to get together and rise. We newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s. Between 1980-1986 have nothing to lose but these chains!” (P 60) he served as Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the upper This novel is based on that dark staunch naked house of the Parliament of India. barbaric bitter and dirty truth of Indian Independence, which Khushwant Singh was decorated with the Padma we call DIVISION. After all, not everyone got what they Bhushan in 1974. But he returned the award in 1984 in protest wanted. against Operation Blue Star in which the Indian Army raided The story begins with the robbery and murder of Lala Amritsar. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the Ram Lal, the only Hindu family in town. The murderers were a second-highest civilian award in India. gang led by Malli, who were looking for their old fellow gang III. RELIGIOUS BELIEF member and leader Juggut Singh, a Sikh hoodlum of great height, build and with a bad reputation. During the event of Singh was a self-proclaimed agnostic, as the title of "dacoit", however, "Jugga" was making love with his his 2011 book Agnostic Khushwant: There is no God explicitly girlfriend, Nooran, the daughter of the town's Mullah (the revealed. He was particularly against organised religion. He interreligious love was strictly forbidden). At the same time of was evidently inclined towards atheism, as he said, "One can the dacoit, Iqbal Singh, a well-educated, effeminate atheist, be a saintly person without believing in God and a detestable though ethnic Sikh, arrived in town to organize the peasants villain believing in him. In my personalised religion, There Is for the People's Party of India. IJTRD | Sep-Oct 2016 Available [email protected] 185 International Journal of Trend in Research and Development, Volume 3(5), ISSN: 2394-9333 www.ijtrd.com Malli and his gang try to pin the crime on Jugga, Within a society therefore patterns of groups on the basics of which results in the arrests of both Iqbal and Jugga due to local likeness and differences. suspicions. They are arrested due to the orders of Hukum Humans are social animals dependent on society for Chand, the regional magistrate, in part because of his food, protection education, comfort and various other services suspicions of both characters for independent reasons. While other services which the society provides. People satisfy they are in prison, however, conflict starts to rise in Mano themselves fulfilling their needs and satisfying themselves Majra when a train full of Muslim corpses is brought to town being a member of the society. and burned by soldiers. Not long after, a group of soldiers comes by to evacuate the Muslim half of town (the other half The society fulfills the needs through relationship. So is Sikh) to Pakistan which leads Nooran to depart while Jugga society has got human interactions, Interactions.Interaction is in jail in the regional capital of Chundunnugger. means the social relationship among members of the society and they are closely related and bounded together for the After the Muslims are evacuated, a local band of fulfillment of their needs. The society is organized by the Sikhs comes to Mano Majra to whip up anti-Muslim sentiment process of interdependence among the groups of and the and sabotage the train that was taking the Muslims to Pakistan. instructions. Chand, normally corrupted but racked with guilt over his own sins, releases both Iqbal and Jugga to stop the killing, and Here for example about the “man is a social animal” despite Iqbal's self-image as a social reformer and Jugga's self- by the author khuswant singh was exposes in his own point of image as a thug, Iqbal drinks himself into a stupor while Jugga view. Finally he took play the name is “the train to Pakistan”. gives his life destroying the rope the Sikh soldiers had set up to the both plays explains about only the animal through affected throw Muslims on top of the train off to their deaths. or hurted the humans, and another one is the train to Pakistan was explain his point of view the social animal are also hurting CONCLUSION by humans so they are called inhumans the author tries to Society is a group of people living together for a convey this morality of his own style. longer time fulfilling various needs of the people. Society is References the product of social relationship among individuals. They contact with each other through the process of give and take. A [1] Seth Vikram, ”Is not a nightman to know”, 1993 penquin human relationship exists for the fulfillment of human needs. publications, Delhi. [2] http:/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/khuswant singh/… IJTRD | Sep-Oct 2016 Available [email protected] 186 .