Unsafe Asylum English 2018
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ISBN:
9789387693258
Publisher:
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited
Pages:
256
Weight:
483 g
Dimensions:
19.7 x 12.8 x 2.7 cm
Book Cover:
Paperback
Thema:
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
After Partition, India exchanged the Muslim patients in its Mental Hospitals for their Hindu and Sikh counterparts in Pakistan. These interlinked short stories explore the impact of this decision, together with the ongoing consequences of Partition. Rulda Singh and Fattu (Fateh Khan), patients at Lahore's Mental Hospital, are separated, possibly for ever. Years later, Prakash Kohli, an Indian psychiatry student, hears Rulda's account of his journey to India, with its casual official cruelty and expected tenderness. When he visits Lahore, Prakash discovers the story of his own birth in 1947.
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