VICTIMS of INDEPENDENCE

Brief Idea of a subject: ‘VICTIMS OF INDEPENDENCE’     :-   Story of a Sailor who happened to face interrogations by the Britishers for many months for having participated in Mutiny of sailors in February 1946. Further to that, he was deployed on security duties in Calcutta Port till the declaration of Independence. There he developed his friendly relations with a prostitute. Prior to the declaration of Independence, he gave his option for Pakistan Navy because of his family business in Okara Town of Montgomery District of West Punjab which was supposed to be included in Pakistan. Accordingly he was asked by the Naval Authorites to report on board a Chitagong bound ship going from Calcutta to East Pakistan, which he declined to obey: That unless he comes to know the present position of his family members with whom his links through letters had been cut off for more than a month, he would not go to that side of Pakistan. But in Defence Forces such excuses are seldom entertained.

Ultimately he had to ask for a Court Martial to seek justice for himself and his family in that difficult period of partition after the independence. To avoid implications of constituting a Court Marttial, the authorities finally allowed him to proceed by train to Karachi instead of going to Chitagong by ship to enable him see his family members on the way at Okara Town. His service File was also dispatched to Karachi base of Pakistan Navy severing all his connections with India and Indian Navy for ever. On his way to Karachi, he comes to know that all his family members had already been killed and house demolished beyond recognition. Instead of going to Karachi he was now advised to return back to Bombay for seeking his re-employment into the Indian Navy. What happens after this to his and his girl friend’s life would be explained as highlights of the subject being developed in the form of a full length Novel under the Title ‘Victims of Independence’.  

   

Balbir Singh                    

BETRAYAL: A Sin.

An act of betrayal committed through a breach of trust, if goes un-noticed  from the eyes of law, becomes a curse for the coming generations of the accused.
One such happening of betrayal took place in the history of Hindustan in 15th century when forefathers of Sher Shah Suri were repeatedly ruined and uprooted from five differently places in Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur districts of Punjab.
With the passage of time, the after effects of these sinful acts came so heavily on the accused family that they were virtually reduced to paupers. On the contrary, a third generation son of victim family(Farid urf Sher Shah Suri) happens to have become emperor of Hindustan with grace of God in same very century.
All these facts were revealed to the accused family through a spiritual Edict from the mazar/grave of their founder fathers in 1882. As remedial measures suggested therein, it was said that unless all those places from where the ancestors of Sher Shah Suri were uprooted, are rehabilitated with humanity, the curse of Allah/God would remain hanging on them.
A young monk(Yogi Nath) gets himself involved into this humanitarian cause after giving a word of honour at the said mazar, for not to disclose to any one the historical connections of the accused family maintained in a secret capsule at the said mazar as a tribute to their founder fathers since the time of Mahmud of Ghazni.
He(Yogi Nath) sacrifices 70 years of his life for this cause of bringing human life back on those Ghost Lands and to rid the particular family of the sins committed by their ancestors in the past.
What all major events like two World Wars and partition of the country take place during these 70 years become the main highlights of the subject.
With all its un-earthed historical facts brought to light with authentic proof of their existence, the total concept otherwise is imaginative and fictionalised to create thrill and spell binding effect.