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The problem is that Khushwant Singh didnвЂ™t turn Jugga into a hero at all. Because Jugga was basically an outcast, Singh places a different light on those in lower standings in societyвЂќ( Link) By allowing Jugga to save the train, Singh suggests that heroes need not always be figures in power. вЂњIt seems fitting that Juggut Singh is the hero in this novel. This is what somebody has written concerning his bravery:

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Jugga is the one who prevents a similar trainload full of Muslims from being slaughtered in retaliation. His village (where all the action takes place), Mano Majra, a mixed Hindu-Muslim village, in which everybody lives together in a close-knit community, is steeped in the Partition turmoil in 1947, and trainloads of dead Hindus from Pakistan are sent to be buried nearby. HeвЂ™s a вЂњbudmashвЂќ, a young and hefty Sikh peasant whoвЂ™s watched by the police because of some petty crimes and his loud mouth. And in Train to Pakistan, we have such a character, Jugga. This function of the novel, for example, works in the sense that readers will tend to need heroes or goodies, and demand revenge against the baddies. But you know that itвЂ™s a novel there are characters, events and a narration, and all this conventional structure enables you perhaps to go beyond the reality in its bare power. вЂњToo historicalвЂќ: yes, certain facts be too historical, in the sense of sickeningly real, unforgivingly real. ItвЂ™s enough to know that the frame is all too historical. IвЂ™ll leave to those better informed to say how much in Train to Pakistan is fiction, how much fact. Hence the interest of fiction: stories and novels might be the right way to mediatise events which otherwise would simply be too factually strong. It is part of our painful heritageвЂќ, says Vivek Sharma). In order to deal with the past, and in this case, a horrible past, it should be careful how it says things, because otherwise this slow and powerful movement of forgetfulness might well be stronger (вЂњ I would urge every Indian and Pakistani to read this book.

And so history deals with oblivion all the time, by fighting against it, thatвЂ™s its principal mission. We intellectuals would tend to consider History as necessary to the identity of a nation, especially if this history tells of its вЂњmistakesвЂќ (but what are a countryвЂ™s mistakes? How do you hold it responsible?) So what happens if a generation finds its past too heavy for it to continue to live with it? HasnвЂ™t it got the right to forget? How do you rationalize this need for departure from a searing past? In general anyway, people forget, time erases. Not being Indian, how do I talk about it adequately? Here and there people say that the present upcoming generation is forgetting (has forgotten?) the events it relates, and such oblivion too is a formidable fact. It seems both too simple, too factual, and so because of that, too deeply rooted in Indian history and drama (for those who need the plot, go here). I am not sure I shall be able to do justice to Khushwant SinghвЂ™s little novel (published in 1956).

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