Poem: Gulzar's TOBA TEK SINGH
Poem: TOBA TEK SINGH GULZAR Class BA VI Sem. English Hon’s Partition Literature Background: Toba Tek Singh is a short story based on the partition of India, written by Saadat Hasan Manto . It was first written in Urdu and published in 1955. It is interwoven with the theme of partition and its emotional and psychological effects on the human psyche. Manto very realistically depicts the division of society into different sects after the partition in the name of religion. It tells the story of the migration of Hindus and Muslims to India and Pakistan respectively after partition in the name of religion. The story is set two or three years after the 1947 partition when the governments of India and Pakistan decided to exchange some Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu lunatics. It revolves around Bishan Singh , a Sikh inmate of an Asylum in Lahore, who is from the town of Toba Tek Sing. Toba Tek Singh is regarded as Satire on Partition. It reflects how after partition t