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Plot

It is the summer of 1947. But Partition does not mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra, a
village on the border of India and Pakistan. Then, a local money-lender is murdered, and suspicion falls
upon Juggut Singh, the village gangster who is in love with a Muslim girl. When a train arrives, carrying
the bodies of dead Sikhs, the village is transformed into a battlefield, and neither the magistrate nor the
police are able to stem the rising tide of violence. Amidst conflicting loyalties, it is left to Juggut Singh to
redeem himself and reclaim peace for his village. Is he able to?
Partition has left many scars in the hearts of several Indians and those tragic days still haunt the new
India, the memories of that tragic period still makes people shiver, and being a sindhi and hearing these
stories from my grandma, I completely relate to it.

Imagine being ousted from your house, friends, family, everyone and packed off to some distant land, like
a courier package. All this, only because you are circumcised, or you are not!

A must read for any one, who wants to get a first hand feel on the happenings of those times. A big
message from the book would be that this kind of holocaust should never ever again happen anywhere,
and the pain and torture is simply irreversible.

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