Nation Building Media Narratives and its Anti-Ecological Roots: An Eco-Aesthetic Analysis of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan

Khushwant Singh’s Train To Pakistan documents the horrors of partition India and in year 1947 by presenting a story set fictional village, Mano Majra which is an ecological synecdoche as village stands for two nations, Pakistan. The nation building narrative Singh, well Gandhi - "the future lies villages", though highly its focus only on maintaining "self-sufficiency" every paradoxical it concerned with microcosm villages not macrocosm nation. spiritual connection that Majrans have their land river, basis identity, cannot be limited narratives revolving around political boundaries. post-partition anxiety countries, at level microcosm, trauma loss home. Singh's novel provides powerful insight into deep roots this eco-aesthetic identity resulting cultural divide continues to exist between This essay makes argument Singh highlights anti-ecological nature his novel,