DSE-5 20/ou/ 22
Toba Tek Singh (Poem
CtwlzAT
Mark 2
wat are the partitions that Continue to
be done after the irst Patition ?
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Here ,ulzar wAnts to enphasia on the idea
a Piece of Jand
breakin
that Par tition doesn't ony mean breaking
up into pieces, E l s o H
aso re fers to the fragnentation of minds,
hearts and Soul. fartition between k i t e
India and Pakistan happened in 1347 but
the horrors of fartition Continued to haunat
peopoles aves or years and een decades.
Here, the sp eaker wants to understand
that the trauma o Partition had been
experienced by Those whose ives wvere
shattered through Partition Jor many
even after Partition.
decades
2wha is to be informed to Afzal ?
whose kends were ooted with laguege )
Here The sfeaker rejers to t h e charecter
from H4 Fazal Din rom lanto 's short
story " Toba Tek Singk ". Fazal b i a Din Came
to visit Bishan Singh in The mental asylum
and inGorned him T h a MS Jamily mmbers
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we r e Kaoted along
Tature
that their heads traveing
their aguage
when they we re
makes
to India. TiS aR utterance
IIectr The truth of Fazal Din's
doubt i l about
he
G
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Statements in lanto s Toba Tek Singh
On
and wereally doubt Ahether the amiw
,
f 2mbers Bishan_Singh did actually
did
a
rive Safey in Pakstan. Here, e agmn
a l n
Come ko about the brutality
townoashas
Par tition.
and chaos east duri ng
That girl... each year "-Explain.
2Here, the speaker is fossi bly talking aboutk
the charaeter Bishan Singh and his
We
daughter Rrop Kaur, WhemMw enConter
in Manto's shert story Toba Tek Singh"
Here the Speaker Continues their story
The speaker informe us that Bishoan Singh's
daughter Reop Kaur, whozs cw by inches
is now
every year Getting shortened by
phalenxes every year. One may easiy
in fer t t the Speaker is
trying to say
that Roop kaur had been
murdere d and now
inher srave t h a t deod body Continnes to
sshrink
krink every year.This is One of t h e most
Pain
Poanffu moments in t h e Poem where we
et to kno n abon t h e horrifie violence
wnleashes
that waR n s t during Partition.
