TWO

by Gulzar

It's the winter of 1946. A truck leaves the village of Campbellpur after news of the impending Partition pours in. It is carrying people who don't know where they will go. They have just heard words like 'border' and 'refugee', and are struggling to understand how drawing a line might carve out Pakistan from Hindustan. As they reach the border, the caravan disperses and people go their own ways. Gulzar's first novel tracks the lives of the people in that truck right from 1946 up to the Kargil war. A novel on what the Partition entailed for ordinary people, Two is also a meditation on the fact that the division of India and the carnage that followed, once set into motion, kept happening inexorably and ceaselessly, and people like those who left their homes on that truck never found another home; they kept looking for a place called home, a place to belong to.

Genres: India

200 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Malahat · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s Gulzar, that’s reason/review enough.

[Ankita · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read in search of roots.

[Kanwarpal Singh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gulzar's first novel tracks the lives of the people in that truck right from 1946 up to the Kargil war. A novel on what the Partition entailed for ordinary people, Two is also a meditation on the fact that the division of India and the carnage that followed, once set into motion, kept happening inexorably and ceaselessly, and people like those who left their homes on that truck never found another home; they kept looking for a place called home, a place to belong to, From India, Pakistan and England, when ever a Pakistani meet Indian they always have a heartly laugh if they have parents who lost there home in partition of 1947 and they have still ties to land they came from.

It's the winter of 1946. A truck leaves the village of Campbellpur (attick ) after news of the impending Partition pours in. It is carrying people who don't know where they will go. They have just heard words like 'border' and 'refugee', and are struggling to understand how drawing a line might carve out Pakistan from Hindustan. As they reach the border, the caravan disperses and people go their own ways.

Interconnected, multiple plot story that make a beautiful novel every character has faced the torture at the hand of destiny, women been through pain of Raped and murder and took revenge on innocent. Men who lost there home feel to visit again, elderly who lost someone wants to know what happened, will they ever go back to place they were born before they die and aftermath of and those who doesn't moved on because they have the responsibility of family and they faced the aftermath of 1984

[The Indian Book Club · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two is the story set in the time of partition, where lives were altered. Hindus, Muslims, and many more lives were shattered. This is the story of people who come from different backgrounds but are together for love and friendship.

What is it like for them to lose their lives? What is it like for them to leave everything they built behind? It's only heartbreaking to see what people have been through. One can only imagine the pain of leaving everything.

These people and their families have built their homes with utmost love and care, not knowing what the future holds for them. Well, we did get separate nations, but at the cost of many innocent lives.

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[Aditya Saraff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simply heartrending!

[Megha Kumari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Soulful!!

[Shruthi Maniraj · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow. Gulzar definitely deserves all the praise.

[Prab Juneja · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is great book that narrates and follows lives of group of people displaced during partition of India ..

[Savita Vashisth · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lifelong fan of Gulzar's work, I enjoyed his first Novella with scattered tales woven around India partition. It left me yearning to read its original Urdu version, a language I can't read in. I can only imagine how rich it must read.