Lahiri, Jhumpa, Interpreter of Maladies (1999).Singh, Khushwant, Train to Pakistan (1990).Sidhwa, Bapsi, Ice-Candy Man (1989) ISBN 0-14-011767-9 later published as Cracking India (1991).The majority of stories by this Punjabi writer revolve around the end of the Raj, Partition and communalism. Manto, Saadat Hasan, Kingdom's End and Other Stories (1987).Rushdie, Salman, Midnight's Children (1980)."River of Fire tells a completist and syncretistic version of 2,500 years of history in modern-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-beginning with the Nanda Dynasty on the brink of defeat by the founder of the Mauryan Empire (323 to 185 BCE), and ending in post-Partition despair."
Translated into English by the author in 1998.
Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children (1980), which won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers, weaved its narrative based on the children born with magical abilities on midnight of 14 August 1947. Literature describing the human cost of independence and partition comprises Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan (1956), several short stories such as Toba Tek Singh (1955) by Saadat Hassan Manto, Urdu poems such as Subh-e-Azadi (Freedom's Dawn, 1947) by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Bhisham Sahni's Tamas (1974), Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in the Ganges (1965), and Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy Man (1988), among others. Even now, more than 60 years after the partition, works of fiction and films are made that relate to the events of partition. While some creations depicted the massacres during the refugee migration, others concentrated on the aftermath of the partition in terms of difficulties faced by the refugees in both side of the border. The partition of India and the associated bloody riots inspired many creative minds in India and Pakistan to create literary/cinematic depictions of this event.
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