The Sixth River

Fikr Taunsvi - Ram Lal Bhatiya

The Sixth River


Fikr - thinking ( engaged in action of thinking) 

Taunsvi - Taunsvi sarif Town in Pakistan

Diary form

Actual subjective account of a individual as he saw.

The whole idea of making and unmaking of a city is offered in the text. Satirical and ironical tone. Attack on politics of the time. 

Title of the diary invokes Punjab as the land of 5 rivers. 

The very idea of existence is changed with partition, turning the river into metaphor for blood and violence. 

Land of abundance - resources like water, soil fertility etc but what prevails here is destruction and violence now. 

The Felt Community- Book by Rajat Kanta Ray : book provides a historical context to the international debate on the nature of nationalism by examining the ideas, feelings and identities that existed in the Indian subcontinent before the emergence of modern nationalism

Colonialism - Manner of idea of conquer and conquest based on the idea of superior and inferior 

✓It is a subjective, very personalised kind of Memoir. An attempt to represent a more or less harmonious environment before Partition. Attempt to recapture the world prior to the upheaval, a nostalgic longing or a desire to move back to that time. The spacio temporal narrative 

✓ idea of human as ideal= untarnished ( violence called inhuman) it is what Manto points out that violence is in human nature as love and care and it cannot be ignored. 




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