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Mano Majra. If this name stirs a memory within you, it is likely that you have read the book "Train to Pakistan" by the late Khushwant Singh. It is a fictitious village close to the Sutlej river in the state of Punjab, India. Pakistan, created in 1947, lay on the other side of the river.The "Train to Pakistan" is a story that captures one of the millions of stories - depicting nothing but sorrow and suffering - that came to life because of the partition, in 1947, of what was then British India, into the India that we know today, and an Islamic state - Pakistan.Big events often get pigeon-holed as great singular occurrences in history. The millions of threads that hang on to these events, nay that are born out of these events, are never remembered. "Partition, 1947", this story, is an attempt to preserve, for no other reason except as a historical record, one of these threads - a series of events that took place in another part of India, in 1947.Based on a true story.